- [Jujubee] Ladies, stealth check time. (logo clicking)
(intense electronic music)
- [Alaska] Don't I have like some like perception shit?
♪ Boss ass bitch♪ (explosion booms)
- [Bob] Check your perception
before you come for me. - [Monét] Before you come for me.
(players laughing)
- [Bob] Everyone say 20.
- [Cast] 20!
♪ Boss ass bitch ♪
- [Bob] I have anxiety!
- [Jujubee] See, I knew it was that bitch.
Can I go invisible right now?
- [Bob] Twyla, you are a loose cannon. (explosion booms)
♪ Boss ass bitch ♪
- [Monét] Kill her. Kill her now!
I knew it. Oh, fuck!
- [Monét] You assaulted a man with a no-knock warrant.
- Troyánn is saucy.
♪ Boss as bitch ♪ - [Brennan] Ladies.
Wish I was alive!
I think we should get naked and see what happens!
(players laughing)
Servants of the fae realm!
There is legend of a witch.
- [Jujubee] Hey, that was really emotional and beautiful.
♪ Boss ass bitch ♪ - [Jujubee] Bitch.
(Monét laughing)
- [Bob] Ooh!
- Hello one and all,
welcome back to another thrilling episode
of "Dimension 20: Dungeons and Drag Queens."
I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me as always are our questing queens!
Say hi, questing queens.
- [All] Hi, questing queens.
(players gasp and groan)
- Last we left off, our questing queens
had arrived in the Village of Greeley,
only to discover sinister goings on in
and around the tavern of Hero's Hall.
For indeed, it seems that merfolk
had been sighted with a witch hunter
there earlier in the day. (adventurous orchestral music)
And some smell of cedar
reminiscent of the burning
of the Foehammer home clung to the wind.
We saw finally some answers to these questions
as our questing queens descended
on a strange figure wearing a corrupted Wraith Clasp,
which you had availed yourself to after some quick thinking,
and a powerful punch to Bump Williams,
the goblin ware hawker who frequented the tavern.
Pow, kablooey.
Summoning a Panther of Thorns, and snapping our friend,
Wallace, in half, who turned out to indeed be
a spirit of the dead masquerading
as a living mortal here in this world.
As Troyánn turned him to mist,
we saw the face, (growls)
of the Blood Queen Zaria Hex,
architect of the downfall of the fairy folk.
Indeed all of these things coming together.
With some quick thinking, and putting together of clues,
we realized that there was a small window of time
given that Troyánn's cousin, Keena of Everdeep.
- Keke. - [Brennan] Keke.
Cousin Keke was somewhere in a body of water resting
due to the time period
that her amulet granting her the ability
to walk on land granted her.
So, you all made haste,
Twyla summoned the shadows, and the spirits of grass
and leaf! (magical tinkling)
And you made your way up the mountain all the way to face
Gargrim, the vulture-headed guardian
of the gateway to the Underworld.
Troyánn spoke, as she often had,
revealing her Amulet of the Soul Keeper.
And each of you spoke your reason
for taking this dangerous mission on.
Some telling the truth, (tense orchestral music)
and others keeping secrets close to their heart.
With a flash of magic, (imitates lightning crackling)
Swirling purple-lavender-indigo mist,
as a wasteland of the dead
erupts in all directions (thunder rumbling)
before you, you see platforms and deserts,
some hundreds of miles long floating in endless void.
You do not see the surface of a world anymore,
but instead a shattered reality of stone
held together by what might be branches,
or themselves veins of some long dead spirit of unlife.
Mist and purple magic fills this endless horizon
of dungeons, platforms, and wasteland.
As you arrive (imitates crashing) in the desert,
the runes disappear in light,
and just remain faintly charred as though singed by fire,
smoking here in the dust.
You see, (whistles) wind blowing,
and kicking up dust and gravel.
And each of you can feel subtly,
not enough to cause you any immediate injury,
but just your mere presence here in the Underworld,
you feel the wind asking to drink your life away,
that you may stay here in the realm of the dead forever.
As you look around, Troyánn, you recognize this path here,
and you see off in the far distance,
a winding thread of dark, almost midnight
purple water moving through.
And you recognize this as the River of Sorrow,
which leads to the place that you have always
come here to do your business.
Which is, as strange as it is to say,
one could refer to it as a town,
but really it's more of a cemetery.
The Village of Hollowgrave, (tense mysterious music)
which is the last way station at the edge of the Underworld,
before you come to this land of gateways
to the mortal realm above.
There is a lot of waste in front of you.
Long, it's a long, dangerous journey.
What do you all do in this moment,
for those of you that are entering the Underworld
for the very first time?
- Do we need to use our bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop,
and disguise ourselves at this point?
Because the wind- - Wait,
have we not been using that?
- No, we just got down here,
and I think that is a wise decision-
- Okay. - With us, right?
- What, the bloop-bloop-bloop is,
is that what we just discovered upstairs?
- We got from dude- - [Jujubee] Upstairs.
- Dude who I punched in the face.
- Okay. - [Alaska] Yeah.
- We should use that.
- Well, I've been here before,
and I can tell you for sure that the unalive,
they, the longer that you're here-
- The undead. - The undead.
- Yeah. (chill mysterious music)
- The longer that you're down here, they can smell-
- The un-not-walking-dead. (players laughing)
- You come here a lot, right?
- Yeah, I do- - [Bob] The unbreathing-
- So, I'll actually, I'll say, Troyánn,
you know this in the past, so, in the past,
you have been able to travel here without a Wraith Clasp,
because you have that Soul Keeper Amulet,
and you have like business here in the Underworld.
You're not sure how well your friends would fare.
You know that if the living are powerful enough,
that they can get here.
They are allowed to journey to Hollowgrave, but not beyond.
That is sort of the last point where you come,
and do your business with the dead.
- Okay. - And then head back out.
So, you might be okay getting to Hollowgrave,
but any place past that, and Hollowgrave
is the farthest you've journeyed in the Underworld,
because that's the meeting point
where the dead and the living do their business here.
- Have a sneaking suspicion we'll be going
slightly beyond Hollowgrave in this journey.
- But I have some spells that can help us.
- Okay.
- You know, like, there's a rope trick.
- Is it a lasso? (Brennan laughs)
It matches your look.
(players laughing) (light folk music)
- It's a rhinestone lasso, yes, it is.
I have a rhinestone lasso that I could use
to open a magical sanctuary to hide me and my friends.
- So, for right now, we don't need to hide.
- We should go to Hollowgrave and look around.
- [Bob] We do stand out like sore thumbs, you know.
- Right, so. - Yeah.
But no one's trying to get us, so we're good for now,
- And you should know,
we also don't know how long your Wraith Clasps last.
I know my amulets are for- - Right.
- I don't know how long it- - Well, I,
how do we know?
How do we find that out though?
Is it a one time use, or can we use it forever?
- 'Cause I don't even, I think there's one way you find out.
- I've never used one before, so I can't-
- You plug it into the wall, and charge it.
(Bob laughs)
- Also the little elevator- - Yeah, it's my first time.
- That Brooke took us down, we need to,
we won't even be outta this area before it comes back
because Keke's coming.
- Keke is coming, so, I say we go to Hollowgrave.
- Let's go to Hollowgrave. - Yeah.
And like, look around, and talk to people,
and see what's going on. - For sure.
- Okay, you two walk in front, (adventurous orchestral music)
I'll be the third one.
And you walk behind just because.
- Just because, why am I the- - So you can be safe, bitch?
- Yes, 'cause I have wings and stuff.
(players laughing)
- Delicate little wings.
- So, Miss Spell Wizard is in the back,
protecting you from the back, we in the front, protect,
what are you doing?
What is your contribution here?
- I'm waiting for- - Oh, what?
- Something bad to happen so that I can save us.
(players laughing)
- There you go. There you go.
- Noted. - You know what I mean?
I'm just, I'm here, I-
- I'm the physically weakest one of the entire group here.
- But you the oldest one trying to die, bitch,
so, who cares?
(players laughing) - [Bob] You don't know that.
Shut the,
Twyla doesn't know that.
- As you figure out your marching order
traveling from this place, let me go ahead and ask,
you would probably have a route that
you take to Hollowgrave as someone
who is supposed to be here.
But with your new companions, I put it to you,
would you wanna journey in a straight route to Hollowgrave,
or do you wanna go a little bit outside of your way?
Basically, you're weighing get there faster
versus get there unseen.
- We need to go unseen, (tense adventurous music)
it's safer to go unseen. - Unseen?
So, there's a chance that Keeana might get there before us.
- This is true. - You mean Keena?
- Keena, Keke, there's a small chance
that she might get there before us
if we go the unseen way, so.
- This is true, but I think with our powers combined,
we could take her.
- All right, got a point. - Great.
- Journeying off on your way,
I'm going to make a little roll in the Box of Doom,
because the Underworld is always dangerous.
So, we're just gonna see- - Cool.
- How much your luck holds out,
going a little bit out of your way to remain unseen.
- Hmm.
- I'm gonna roll, it's a pure Luck check,
we're not adding or subtracting anything.
You just want a high roll, I'll say. - It's our group Luck.
- [Brennan] And I'm just gonna roll it right in front of you.
- Oh, this is for us. - So, all of you get to see, this is for you.
You just want a high roll here.
(die clicking)
11, not too bad, not too good.
As you journey through the Underworld-
- Oh, great.
(players laughing)
- As you journey through the Underworld, Troyánn,
you take them off to a series of ridges that sort of,
shoo, spike up towards a sort of sheening mist.
There's a strange storm cloud in the air
that you could swear almost was like a concealing a mirror.
And you can almost see like the mountain,
and hilltops reflected in a dark glass miles up in the sky,
some strange optical illusion of the Underworld.
As you journey forward through this place,
you eventually arrive at the banks of the River of Sorrow.
(eerie music)
All of you look and see this deep, dark river.
And on the other side, you see that there are some figures
wandering out of the waste.
Their skeletal bodies sort of half formed,
some still with an eye, or other piece
of rotting flesh hanging from them.
And you see one of them, (gasp)
Look at the river, charge into the water. (imitates splash)
Disappear under its depths.
No bubbles or movement.
And
a moment later.
(Brennan gasps) (water splashing)
The figure charges up, rushing back in the direction
that it just came from, stands, looks around confused.
Rah!
It howls out.
Fuck!
(Bob laughing)
- He stub his toe?
- Hah!
Hah!
Looking across at all of you.
How'd you get over there?
- How'd you get over there?
- I got hit by lightning!
- Ooh, that sucks- - Where?
- Where did we get lightning? - That sucks, I'm so sorry.
I apologize.
We didn't hit him with lightning, he just died, he's dead.
- He died, and got transported there.
- Oh, I thought you got hit by lightning,
and it helped you get there, and I was like,
one of us has to have- - No, no, we didn't know,
he's-
- I, when I was alive,
I collected keys, and I had a big chest of keys,
and I was in, got caught out in the rain,
and I slipped, and my keys went everywhere,
and I had to pick them up, and put them back in the chest!
And I was out there, and the storm came,
and I got hit by lightning!
And then I survived, and I woke up,
and I had dropped the keys again.
- Yeah.
- [Brennan] So, I started putting them back,
and then I got hit again, and died on the second time!
- Yeah, and we understand, and we're sorry.
And that is unfortunate, (players laughing)
and we acknowledge that.
But you're, and that's kinda, this is where you are now.
You're just over there now.
- Are you, you all look great, how did you die?
(tense eerie music)
- Oh, I'm not dead, baby.
- You're alive! - Shh!
- [Brennan] You're alive, hey!
- Is what somebody who was alive would say.
(players laughing) (Bob hooting)
And since I'm not alive!
Bitch.
(Brennan clapping hands)
- What'd you roll, a one on stealth? - Good save, good save.
- I'm gonna need a deception check from Twyla.
- [Monét] Yes, please. - Deception check.
- Twyla. - A deception roll.
Please give me a deception roll.
- Twyla says, JK, LOL. - Roll it, roll it.
- (laughs) JK LOL.
- Cut your crap. - [Alaska] JK!
- [Jujubee] Is that a d20?
- [Brennan] It's a d20,
and you're gonna add your deception skill
on your character sheet.
- Okay, plus three, now a- - [Alaska] Mm.
Ain't your deception low?
- [Jujubee] What if I do- - Oh my God,
here we go, okay.
- [Brennan] Here we go, we gotta roll high,
come on. - [Alaska] Deceive.
- 13. - [Monét] Okay.
- Plus three, 16. - Okay.
- 16, a 16 is a good roll. - Yes.
- 16, he says, oh, that's what I would say
if I was alive too! (players laughing)
That's what I would say too, I wish I was alive!
I don't wanna be dead!
Huh, well, you're on the right side of the river,
how'd you get over there?
- Well, we're coming over there now,
we're actually headed, we're headed that way,
we'll see you in like 10 minutes.
You just hang out over there,
we will be on that side in like 10 minutes for sure.
- Oh. - Can we get them to,
'cause he's with a bunch of other souls, right?
- There's a bunch of other souls on that side of the river.
- To make a bridge? - Can they make it
a soul bridge that we can climb over?
'Cause we can't cross the river.
- Does anyone have necromancy?
No. (laughs)
- Okay, the question, can, because I can swim,
can I use my swimming power?
- You can use your swimming power, absolutely.
- But can I take people with me?
- Can we ride? - You,
I don't believe you can take people with you. - Okay.
- But there, I think you might have some,
there's, I forget exactly all of your abilities,
but there are some- - Okay,
I have one, okay. - [Brennan] Okay.
- Can I use, I wanna use my Emissary of the Sea ability.
- [Brennan] Yes, absolutely.
- Because I can speak to aquatic creatures.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna speak to, what's a-
- Like a dead whale? - I'm gonna speak
to a sperm whale, a dead sperm whale.
(Alaska gasps) And have it crest,
and they're gonna ride the sperm whale across.
(player gasps)
- Okay, amazing.
Go ahead.
All right, gimme a roll with advantage.
I'm just gonna say that this
is a persuasion roll with advantage.
- Persuasion roll with advantage.
Okay. - [Brennan] Mmhmm.
- If you get a 20, we get a sperm whale,
if you raise a, roll a one, we get a guppy.
(players laughing)
- Basically, your roll, this thing will definitely help you.
You're trying to convince it to help other people as well.
- Okay, well, my persuasion is two, y'all,
so, this is not looking great.
- [Brennan] Here we go. - All right.
- (whisper) Nat 20. (tense eerie music)
(die clicks)
- 16. - [Brennan] 16!
- I rolled 14, plus two is 16.
- Incredible, and you have it with advantage,
so you can roll again if you like.
- So, I got- - You roll again.
- You can roll again, and if it's higher,
we'll use the higher roll. - If we bigger than 14,
can we at least have like a "Free Willy?"
- [Brennan] Yes, you gotta- - Situation.
- [Brennan] Yes, exactly. - Okay.
(die clicks)
Oh fuck!
Sorry. - [Brennan] You're good. (laughs)
- What is it?
- It's like, oh, it was literally 20,
then it rolled over to two! - [Brennan] Oh no,
so close to a 20, but we're still gonna use the 16,
which is a great roll. - [Monét] Okay.
- So you see, indeed, there's. (growls)
What does it look like as Troyánn like calls them?
(tense adventurous music) - Okay, so I jump
in the water, (water sloshes)
and then I get, I swim to midway in the bank, and then I-
- Yeah, boy, nah, just go ahead and finish the trip.
- Right.
(players laughing)
- I swim around in a pattern,
and I put both hands on the side of my head.
I'm like, I begin to.
(Monét imitating whale sounds)
- [Brennan] All of you above see-
- It's giving Marvel copyright infringement.
(cast laughing)
- [Jujubee] Right.
- Well hey, first of all, he is DC, so you wrong.
- Oh, Zack Snyder's gonna come,
and fucking sue our asses.
(Monét makes more whale noises)
- She sounds like a pigeon.
- And then a sperm whale, two of them come,
but I tell them we only need one because we got a 14.
And then so I send one back, (Bob laughs)
and then the other one crests the water.
And I tell everyone to come.
- All of you see this bone white sperm whale,
its skin and flesh bleached with death,
that has all of these like serrated lacerations
of tentacles as though squid in some ancient
primordial ocean had raked across its eyes,
sort of bleeding sores. (groans)
This whale comes up, and as it enters forward,
I'm actually going to need also,
having dived into the River of Sorrow,
I'm gonna need a Wisdom saving throw from Troyánn.
- [Monét] A Wisdom saving throw?
- [Brennan] Yes, a Wisdom saving throw.
So, above your skills are your saving throws, and-
- [Bob] Oh, does the water do damage?
How does that work? - Not physical,
but it, there's a sort of spiritual effect
that happens in the water. - Okay, so I want.
- You want a higher roll.
So, go ahead and roll, and add your Wisdom saving throw,
which will be above your skills, yeah.
- 14, honey, oh no, that's four.
- [Brennan] Plus, okay- - Okay, plus four.
- [Brennan] Plus four, plus four.
- I was close, 14, I wanted to say, ooh, we got Wisdom.
(Brennan laughs)
Okay, okay.
Now, if I roll bad on this, I'm like,
gonna be spiritually fucked up.
- [Brennan] Could be, we don't know. - Better than-
- We don't know. (die clicks)
- Four plus four, eight. - [Brennan] Eight.
- [Bob] Hmm. - Troyánn,
as you summon these whales here,
you, this river,
you are of the living,
this river is not intended to repel you.
It is not made for you,
it is intended to keep the dead
within the boundaries of the Underworld.
But nonetheless, the magic by which it does so
is a magic of sort of eternal loss, you know,
these spirits dive into the water to swim to the other side,
and emerge thinking that they have done so,
only to find themselves facing the shore
that they have just left. - Oh.
- And as they do so- - Like "Severance."
- Like "Severance," yeah, like trying to leave. - [Brennan] Yes.
It's exactly like "Severance."
So, this is not intended to cast its magic upon you,
but the power that it uses is itself the like,
grasp or feeling on the life that these souls have lost.
And even though you have not lost your life,
there are things that you have lost.
- Do you think she like lost her sense of fashion?
'Cause that seems to be...
(Brennan laughing)
(Jujubee laughing)
..One of the first things I noticed.
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] You see, getting to the bottom of the river,
you realize that the river-
- You're such an asshole.
- Is littered with bones, skulls,
all these sorts of like Underworld things.
- You're about to have some more.
(players laughing)
- We're on the same team.
- And you see, as you reach down, and start to call out,
you see that there's like reverberations that kick up
like dust and mud from the bones at the bottom of the river.
And you see reverberations in the water in front of you,
you can feel that already these like,
these beings are coming to help you and your allies.
But you see something reflected in the water.
You see the face of your father.
(gasp)
- [Bob] He's dead!
- Or reflected at least. - You see your father.
(eerie mysterious music)
- Father? - A beautiful elven man
looks at you, he smiles,
his deep eyes reflecting the forest of his home.
See, he goes, sugar, I'm so sorry.
They lied to you.
And vanishes.
And there is a pang of pain within your heart.
You suffer three points of damage.
(Alaska gasps) (meter buzzes)
Which you have a lot of hit points,
it is not a fatal blow at all,
but you can feel some part of you spiritually
is harmed by the vision of sudden truth
here in this magical river.
- Emotional damage.
- So, do I write that down?
- Yes, in your, so, write- - Temporary, or?
- [Brennan] In current, so you would just subtract three.
- We're good, we didn't jump in the water, we waited.
- I'm trying to drink some water.
- Don't drink this water, do not.
(Alaska laughs)
I say this out loud, do not drink this water.
(Brennan and Monét laughing)
I feel like I need to say it out loud.
- [Bob] I think you should- - [Jujubee] I just thought-
and I thought it wouldn't need to be said,
but I feel like I need to say out loud,
don't drink this water. - And here's Twyla just like.
(players laughing)
Oh.
- Over on the other side, you see someone just. (glugging)
Ugh, fuck, it's good!
It's good!
- As a drink, it's nice.
(players laughing)
- Does anybody know- - It's got a kick!
- where the bathroom is?
- [Bob] Got a kick!
- So, this whale appears,
and can absolutely ferry you
and your friends to the other side.
Do you, having had that vision,
do you want it to ferry the other spirits across as well?
- No, I am not, in fact, as I come up
from seeing this vision of my father,
I am swimming back to the top.
I am tired, I feel, it, well, this was a short journey,
but I am drained completely,
and I try to get onto the whale,
and my friends have to help me on,
'cause I am physically exhausted
from this little thing into the thing.
But I do not help the other spirits,
I do not trust them hoes.
- Because I feel like Gertrude reaches down,
she is not very strong.
She's pulling, and she's looking back at Princess like,
please, can you help?
- Can I summon a beast to help lift her up onto the whale?
- Sure! - Well, we got a beast on.
(players laughing)
We got a beast.
- Princess has got it, yeah, for sure.
Princess, nothing, you hoist Troyánn up on the whale.
- I'm still holding Troyánn's hand, we're both in the air.
(players laughing)
- Thank you.
Thank you, Princess.
- And I'm just standing there with my arms crossed,
just, really? (players laughing)
This is what we're doing?
- The whale moves you across the river.
As the whale approaches,
you see the souls of the dead gathering and waving.
(panting) The beast, it can let us across, yes?
(eerie tense music)
- (sighs) Well, I consult my team,
should we help these souls?
Do we think that this would offer us good favor,
and merit with these...?
- We might need them later. - You know what,
you know what wouldn't do good for us?
Causing a scene here. - [Jujubee] Yeah.
- If we, who are we gonna get in trouble with?
- We may need their help later.
- [Jujubee] But yeah, don't you think they know-
- They're gonna be gone, they're gonna be gone,
they're gonna go back to the Earth if we,
or to Kelvorda if we let them go.
- They're gonna become like undead, like zombies upstairs.
- [Bob] You don't wanna release this into the world. - Which is like worse.
- [Bob] You got, go ahead, go ahead.
- They're gonna get mad at us if we say no.
- So, we're gonna have to let them down,
we'll have to start fighting. (laughs)
- What about one?
Don't you have one of those amulets?
(Bob gasps)
Isn't there a reason for that?
That we kept that one? - But once we,
we do have an extra, well, she has an extra amulet-
- And I have one, no, I have, I have-
- No, you have the one. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- Are you gonna give someone the amulet,
or are we gonna start just fighting these?
- If we give one, we're gonna have to,
the other ones are gonna be very upset, I would be upset.
- Well, we need to find the leader, is there a leader?
- I think we have to fight. (laughs)
- I think we have to fight.
- Oh no.
- Let's fight these motherfuckers.
- Let's fight. - Lemme put on my-
- Tell them no, tell them no.
- They don't get to leave the Underworld
lickity split. (Alaska snips fingers)
- No, I'm sorry, you can't. - You don't get to.
That's what we do.
- Why, why?
So it's my fault? (tense dramatic music)
It's my fault that I got hit by lightning twice?
'Cause I didn't wanna leave my keys?
- Yeah-huh, a little- - [Jujubee] It is what it is, honey.
- Yeah, you coulda, 'cause everyone knows
that lightning strikes, and you were just out in the-
- And you got hit twice. - So.
- And you had that really weird umbrella, it's your fault.
- Oh, it's my fault?
Oh, hey, aren't you so lucky to still be alive?
They're gonna leap at ya.
(Bob gasps)
- [Bob] God.
- Just looking through our spells.
- I'm getting in the back, I am wounded.
Let's get some sturdy spells- - Oh, Monét's, oh yeah,
Troyánn's like tired and shit. - Avada kedavra,
about over there, she gotta study some spells.
Crucio, crucio.
- Everyone roll initiative.
- Okay, initiative, here we go.
- All right. (dice clicking)
- Initiative. - Oh God.
- What'd you get?
- I got a three. - [Monét] Oh.
- Wait, is there a plus, was there a plus?
- Yes, it's the initiative's at the top
of the sheet next to Armor Class.
- I got a, I'm at a six. (die clicks)
- You rolled a one?
- I rolled a three plus three.
- I got six. - I got a 20.
- Okay, oh, ooh, I'm at a 20!
- [Brennan] Yeah, all right, amazing. (Monét clapping hands)
- I did not get a nat, I didn't get a nat though,
I just got-
- When you get a 20 like that, we call it a dirty 20.
When you get it- - A dirty 20.
- When you get an adjusted 20, okay.
- And I have a 29.
- So- - What?
- Whoo! - What?
- What's your plus initiative?
- [Brennan] Plus 14. - My initiative is 14.
- Damn. - And I got a 15.
- You better be a initiative-ish.
(Brennan laughs)
- I got my age, hmm, 29. (players laughing)
- Aggressive.
- Incredible, okay.
- I'm gonna beat the shit out of them.
- Yeah, if she just hits people, we're, I'm cast a spell.
- So, Twyla's gonna act first.
Your reflexes are unmatched.
- Oh shit.
- And then it will be Princess and Troyánn,
and then it will be Gerty.
- So, are we fighting one, or does he have buddies?
Just one guy we- - There are a dozen
of these shambling- - That's three each.
- There's 12 of these sort of shambling undead
on the other side.
Again, these do not seem to be the spirits of like,
great warriors, but there are still a dozen,
you see sort of a mob of them looking desperate
at a chance for life as though
they don't seem to be great wizards,
or have an understanding of the Underworld.
They just are the souls of normal people that died,
but they see your beating blood in your veins,
and they see how close they are to life once more.
So, Twyla, you're gonna be first to act.
There are a dozen of these sort of shambling undead
that are charging at you, what would you like to do?
- Oh my God, I have no idea what I wanna do.
- Something, you're good at magic, right?
- Ah yeah, I'm good at magic, but like, what do I-
- You have any group spells?
- The group spell that I have is Pass Without a Trace,
or the Rope Trick.
- No, that's something against a group of people.
- The group of people?
- Also, Twyla is a skilled markswoman,
so you can always fire your bow if you want,
if you just want to attack-
- Oh my bow's really strong, isn't it?
- Your bow's very strong, that's true.
- Kill these guys. - [Jujubee] So, wait.
- You make two strikes with any of the following weapons.
longbow, your best weapon.
Okay, I should do that.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- You know what?
I'm Twyla, (intense epic music)
and I'm gonna make a hit with my longbow.
- Hell yeah. (tongue pops)
You attack twice, you get to fire two arrows.
So, go ahead and give me two attack rolls.
And I believe you're adding, I believe, plus 10.
- Okay, 17 plus 10, 27.
- That is a hit, go ahead and roll again.
- All right. (die clicks)
10 plus 10, 20.
- Both of those hit, because it is the first turn of combat,
you also get a third attack because you are a Ranger.
So, you may roll a third attack for free right now.
(Jujubee trilling)
- Is that a six or a nine?
- That is a nine.
- Okay, so nine plus 10.
Nine plus 10 is- - [Monét] 19.
- [Brennan] 19 hits as well. - Just kidding.
- [Brennan] That is- - It's the easiest thing to add.
- That is three confirmed hits,
(players laughing and clapping hands)
- Good job, Twy! - Okay,
but how do we know what-
- So, are three of them dead now, or three of them-
- How much damage do they have?
- [Brennan] We're about to find out,
you're about to see how tough they are.
I think having adventured here in the Underworld before,
you wouldn't assume, it's not the toughness
of each individual that bothers you,
but rather the number of them here. - The number.
- As individuals, they're probably
a little bit easier to defeat,
but you're gonna have to act quickly.
So, Twyla,
you're gonna take your d8, your d8 is this one right here.
And we're gonna start rolling damage for your three attacks.
So, you're gonna roll that,
and you're gonna add plus five each time.
- Okay.
- Come on, come on, big money. (die clicks)
- One plus five, six. - Oh God.
- Six, an arrow thuds into one. (shrieks)
As he, as this sort of undead creature screams,
roll damage for your second attack.
- Okay.
- Big money, big money, big money.
- Is that? - That's a six.
- Is that a six, yeah. - That's a six.
- Six plus 10, 16. - [Monét] Ooh.
- Is that 16, 10, yeah, 16. (dramatic heroic music)
- Incredible, so, your first two arrows, foo, huh!
And one goes through the eye, the only remaining eye.
Guh! (gasps)
You see this figure collapse in the shallow water
at the edge of the river, and kss, ah!
Disanimate into bones.
You have destroyed one of the undead.
- And Twyla goes. (snickers)
(Brennan laughs)
- Good job, Twyla.
- And now this, this is your special third attack,
so this is actually, you're gonna roll that d8 twice
for damage on this last one- - Oh.
- [Brennan] And then add a five.
- Ooh.
(die clicks)
- Four.
- [Monét] Okay, nine. (die clicks)
- Seven. - 11 plus five is 16.
Twyla, you see one of these shambling dead figures
looks at you, and says, ah, do I recognize you?
Oh. - Do you?
- One of those fairies.
I served in the armies of Zaria Hex,
it would be an honor to kill one more fairy.
- Ooh. - Oh.
- And describe what happens as you end
the unlife of this dead creature.
- Wreck him.
- Okay, so this is what I do.
All right, I take off all my rings,
(rings clink)
(Brennan laughing)
I take off all my earrings.
(earrings clinking)
And then I do one of these.
Huah, huah, huah, hah! (air whooshing)
(imitates wind rushing)
A storm of (grunts) like gemstone arrows,
(arrows wooshing)
(arrows thudding)
Shreds tatters and ribbons of flesh,
and bones clatter to the ground. (bones clattering)
Twyla has killed two of the oncoming undead abominations,
the- (players clapping hands)
- Good job, Twyla.
- You're welcome, you're welcome.
- Hell yes, Princess and Troyánn, you share an initiative,
so you can decide between you who goes first.
- You go first, you're stronger. - Okay, okay.
Princess has been waiting for this.
(Monét chuckles)
So, she cracks her neck a little bit. (neck cracking)
(Monét laughs)
She cracks her knuckles, (knuckles cracking)
and she grabs her giant ax, and she says,
Rage!
(players laughing)
- Someone of her- - And she flies into a rage.
- See, a skeleton just goes,
I've never heard anyone announce it like that.
(players laughing)
- Guys, I think- - I got a skeleton
like a cigar. - She's about
to get really mad at us. (players laughing)
I think we pissed off the big one.
(Brennan laughing)
- The broad shouldered one. - [Brennan] All right, perfect.
- Yeah, someone's in a mood.
- Incredible, you charge forward,
you are going to attack. (tense orchestral music)
You are now in a rage.
Do you want to attack recklessly,
or do you want to attack normally?
- Normal.
- Great, go ahead and gimme your first attack roll,
you will attack twice.
- Okay. (die clicks)
So, that's a 14, do I add something to that?
- Yes, you're gonna add eight to this,
so 14 plus eight is 22. - [Monét] Ooh.
- [Brennan] That is a hit,
go ahead and roll your second attack.
(die clicks)
- [Alaska] 17.
- [Monét and Brennan] Ooh.
- [Brennan] That's definitely gonna do it.
- 25.
- Now, you're gonna roll this big dice right here,
your d12 all the way on the left of that little line.
- Okay. - [Brennan] And now because you're raging,
you're actually gonna add seven damage to whatever you roll.
- Okay. - You're gonna rip
somebody's head off. (die clicks)
- 12.
- Ooh, 19 damage.
One hit, kapow! (weapon shings)
A little fountain of bones and viscera.
Boom, as one of the skeletons goes flying into the water.
Roll damage for your second attack.
- Ooh, werk. (die clicks)
So that's a nine.
- Nine plus seven is 16.
Just one, two, you're making light work of these undead.
Boom! (weapon shings and crunches)
A rib cage is completely vivisected.
All of you watch just a surprised pair of arms and a head
pop off as the lower torso and legs
go scattering into the water (remains splashing)
from one mighty blow of Princess's ax.
- I'm gagged.
- Werk, Princess.
- Werk.
- It's giving Goro.
- Gertrude is like, my god. - [Alaska] That was very good.
- Incredible.
Princess, you have suddenly like
cleared a path through these undead.
Is there anything that you say to the remaining undead
as you begin to like carve through them?
- Dinner is served. (players laughing)
- You see a, just a rotting warrior goes like,
is she gonna fucking eat us?
(players laughing)
We're rotting.
(players laughing)
Troyánn, it's gonna be you.
- Okay, so I'm rolling.
- You may do whatever you like, you,
there are spells you can cast,
or you have a very powerful- - Oh.
- Or you have a very powerful longbow attack.
- Yeah, I wanna use my longbow attack-
- Okay. - 'Cause, so I can
create two Arcane Shots.
- So, go ahead and roll your d20 twice,
and you're gonna add 10 each time.
- Got it. - Werk
(tense orchestral music) (die clicks)
Four plus 10 is 14.
- I know that's a very low roll,
but these guys have an Armor Class of 13.
- Oh. Whoo! - So you still hit.
- That's how good Troyánn is of like the training,
even on a three on the die, or sorry, a four on the die,
you're still able to hit these guys. - Well, let's not get a one.
- There you go. (die clicking)
- 11!
- Hell yes, all right. - 21, boom.
- Two arrows fire. (bowstring strains and cracks)
- So, so what it is, so I get energy a little bit,
and I run in like a little zigzag Cheetara situation,
and I do a back flip, (air whooshing)
and I get onto a rock and I perch, right?
- [Brennan] Yes! - So, I get my d12, no?
- [Brennan] Your d8, so you're gonna get d8,
which is that one right there. - Eight.
- [Brennan] Yep.
- Uh-huh? (players laugh)
And I'm rolling to see how much damage I'm doing.
- Amazing, so yeah, you're gonna roll the first one,
and if you wanna make these into Grasping Arrows
to deal extra damage, you absolutely can.
- Yes, I wanna do Grasping Arrows.
- Incredible, so go ahead, you're gonna roll the d8,
and I'm actually gonna give you an extra one of these.
So, take that and your other d6 there,
and you're gonna roll.
- All three together?
- [Brennan] All three together and add them together.
- What are Grasping Arrows?
- They're, so, they're these arrows
that are imbued with magic,
and they have restraining and poisonous powers.
- Oh, werk. (dice clicking)
- Yeah. - We are fucking these fucking skeletons up.
- Yes, as I am perched on this rock, and I am-
- I haven't done nothing yet, but.
(Brennan laughs)
You guys are doing great.
- You're like.
- I know, she watching.
- Like, I flip back on, I land, and like,
in like a lunge split almost, you know what I mean?
- Incredible.
- Gertrude, the whole time Gertrude just like.
- [Monét] So, three, five, a nine, a 12.
- [Brennan] Three, and then you're gonna add five to that
just from your Dexterity.
- 17.
- So, all of you watch Troyánn sail through the air,
and a like, (bowstring strains)
the arrow goes on the bow as a normal arrow.
And in drawing it back,
the arrow fills with poisonous venom green light, whoo!
And a like aquamarine venom green undersea poison.
- But I do it with a lot of things,
so as it goes back, as I let the arrow go,
I blow onto it too to give a little extra sass on.
- Incredible. (Brennan claps hands)
The breath, whew, exhales, boom!
- Headshot.
- Shoo! (impact bangs)
All of you watch its like this effect,
the arrow hits through the eye, and undersea briars,
and like poison kelp erupt in an explosion,
and split the skull open (skull booms and crunches)
of this undead.
(explosion and water running)
As it hits the ground. (Brennan claps hands)
- And after the bodies is on the floor,
barnacles start to go out of it.
- Ah, sick as a hell! (Brennan claps hands)
- Don't mess with these ladies.
(players laughing)
- Incredible, go ahead and roll damage
for your second attack, and you can use
your second Grasping Arrow here if you want to as well.
- Okay, I'm gonna use my second Grasping Arrow as well.
- Go for it. (dice clicking)
- How many arrows do you have?
- I have two, this is my own, it's my second one.
- You have two, and but Troyánn's abilities reset
in a shorter amount of time, every hour.
- And we might need these later.
- [Moné] Yeah.
- Yeah, so I am off the split, (house music)
and now I see another enemy across the way,
so I jump and I'm running towards him.
And as I am running towards him, I am drawing my arrow,
and drawing my bow. (dice clink)
I roll a seven plus five, which is 12,
plus five, which is 17. (Brennan clapping hands)
And then I am running toward him, and I'm drawing my bow,
and then I, the venom is drawing in,
I let it go. (bow snaps)
I run, I look at the bow as I'm running,
and I stop, and then I get another headshot.
(Brennan laughing) (arrow thunks)
- Pew! - That's so fierce.
- Headshot and it just leaves a stream of blood,
and briars. (grunt)
Like, growing up out of the ground in a line.
Unbelievable.
Well, each of these mighty warriors have,
you have halved the amount of enemies chasing you
in a single moment. - [Bob] Whoo!
- Gertrude, you see- - You go, Gerty.
- Gertrude, what do you do? (players laughing)
- Nothing. - Hey, Gertrude is standing
as far back as she can.
First, she goes, ugh!
And she's watching all of these, and she's like, oh, oh,
oh, oh!
Watching her friends just annihilate these bitches, like,
'cause Gertrude is not, she's not often around
this many people, so she's like, all right,
so she has to will, like, muster up the will,
and she sees there's still six of them left,
and she's like, I gotta do something.
So, she's going to do Thunder Wave.
- Ooh. (tense eerie music)
- Which will scatter all the nearby enemies.
It has a great description, can I read it?
- Yeah, read the description.
- A wave of thunderous force sweeps out from you,
each creature in a 15-foot cube originating from you
must take a Constitution saving throw on a failed save.
There's a big burst coming outta me.
- Unbelievable. - Well, and yes,
she, okay, first what happens is she sees,
she sees her friends, she musters up the courage,
and then she runs in, and she's kinda
cowering underneath Princess.
And then she decides to do Thunder Wave.
- Unbelievable.
Okay, you can cast Thunder Wave,
you can also cast it at a little bit
of a higher level spell if you want.
So, do you wanna put a lot of oomph into this one,
or do you just wanna do a standard cast?
- It isn't gonna hurt my friends, does it?
- Actually, the way everyone's described,
like Twyla shooting at range, Troyánn has run off
a little farther, and Princess has just
sorta cleared an area around her.
So, I'm gonna say in this moment,
you can protect your friends from this burst of magic. - Got it, okay.
- So, if you wanna gas it up a little bit, you can.
- You know what?
Let's gas it up. - Yeah!
(Brennan clapping hands)
- There's six more enemy, get them-
- [Monét] Yeah, put the pedal to the metal here.
- [Brennan] Pedal to the metal, hell yeah.
So you're gonna cast it with a third level spell slot,
which means you're actually going to roll 4d8.
- [Bob] Whoo! - So you're gonna take your d8,
and you're gonna roll it four times-
- Ooh! - And add all
of that together.
- Okay, so the first one is a.
- One. - One.
- A one, I pulled the old Monét.
- Gerty, Gerty. - Hold on.
- And then, but this one is a three.
- Okay, wait, stop and take a Boniva, girl,
get it together. (players laughing)
- This one's a three.
This one is a three.
- Okay.
- Wow!
- [Bob] So, we're at seven. - Gerty.
- Seven,
go on and roll again.
- This is too much pressure.
- You're doing great, Gerty.
- I don't do well in battle, I don't even go around people,
just saying hi is a big deal for me,
so please just give me a break here.
- Wow. (die clicks)
- And I rolled an eight!
- Yeah, there it is! (Monét clapping)
- [Monét] Gerty. - Okay.
15, so now they're gonna roll saving throws against this
'cause they're trying to avoid this happening to them.
Their Constitution saving throw, it's only a plus two,
and your difficulty class, as a very powerful spell caster,
is actually a 16.
So, there are six of them left, and they need to roll
14s or higher in order to save.
So we're gonna, I'm gonna roll this in front of you,
and we're gonna see how many of them are vaporized, right?
- Well, I wanna describe how she did it, okay?
- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, go for it.
- So, she runs into the middle, and she's nervous.
It's not like a fierce run, she's like, ooh, ooh!
And she runs, but she leaps her arms, are just flying,
she balls up this hand, (electricity humming)
balls up this one, and all the pressure you can see like,
the lightning, like, she's condensing it down,
and then she waves it over her head, as she lands,
she just smashes it into the ground. (magic booming)
And then it just goes, pff,
and it casts the wave out around her.
- Werk. - And she looks
nervous the whole time, she's like, ooh!
(electricity humming) (Monét laughing)
- [Brennan] Incredible, let's see- - Go Gerty.
- Let's see how many,
and the good news is, even if they succeed,
they still take half damage. - [Bob] Got it.
(dice clicking)
(numbers humming) - Ah.
- Okay.
Gerty, you rush forward.
- This doesn't sound good.
- You hit the ground.
Having just watched half their number be destroyed,
two of these dead sort of have a moment's hesitation.
Those two that have a moment's hesitation,
that moment's hesitation is what causes them to survive,
because four of them make the decision to leap at Gerty
in the moment
that you let go of the spell, and
(imitates thunderous explosion)
All of you watch them simultaneously separate
at every joint in their body- - Ooh.
- [Brennan] Including the joints in their skull and ribs.
- Ooh.
The storm tears them apart, (thunder crackling)
four of them are vaporized instantaneously.
- Werk.
- Two of them scatter backwards
that are the only two remaining.
In the midst of all of this,
you see it is now their turn to act,
and there are only two left. (eerie menacing music)
And then something strange happens.
One of the two turns over, and takes a sort of thick, like,
handaxe, and beheads (axe clinks)
the one next to it, even and partially like,
singed still smoking from Gertrude's spell.
You stop that now, ooh! (ax thunks)
And you look and see a figure stand up.
Rotting,
wearing sort of noble clothing like a black military coat
with epaulets, and medals, and
wearing a, you know, it's like somewhat rotting garb,
but a big jaw with tusks.
Rotting flesh.
And you see this one stand up, turn,
and look at Princess raging.
Say, Princess, my niece?
Princess, you turn and behold your father's brother.
- Ah.
- Mm-mm.
- Kerwyn Foehammer, who turns you and says,
no, (dice clicking)
no, tell me it is not true, tell me.
Tell me you have not died.
Then you are still alive?
(Brenann gasping)
And you see this undead figure collapse to his knees,
go to hold Princess's hand, and like bury his forehead
as he weeps onto your hand, Princess.
You are still in a rage right now,
but I wanna ask everyone, you know,
it's the thick of combat, you've dispatched, you know,
this was, they, you let them have it,
but suddenly this figure has revealed itself from the crowd.
What do you do in this moment?
- Can I ask him what happened?
- You absolutely can.
Your Uncle Kerwyn is a proud warrior, strong jaw,
he sort of has like this salt and peppered hair
that's slicked back, and these long muttonchops
that accentuate his like big jaw even more.
He's got this massive orcish sword on his back,
and he looks at you and says,
Aye, the fire came so fast,
consumed us all.
There was
a flicker in the mist,
the shade of some horrible thing,
a woman in red robes like a queen of blood.
She came there in the night,
and I took my sword, and she held one hand aloft,
pointed a finger, and said, (tense ominous music)
this is the hour of your passing.
I felt my heart stop in my chest,
and I fell to the ground dead,
struck down by sorcery before the fire could take me.
I know not what our family did to cross her,
but I know her name.
Zaria Hex.
I've,
I have journeyed here in these wastes for so long,
looking for any other member
of the Foehammer family I could find,
wondering if any bore witness or had survived.
And piece by piece, I tried to put the mystery together.
I came across one in Hollowgrave, not far from here,
the town, who said, I have asked as I often did
if any had seen Foehammers still living in the world above.
And someone said, I had, there was a orcish waitress
at a place called the Fishtank in Darktide,
and that one, I said, what?
No, we're nobility.
And she said, well, I saw a orc working,
wearing a pink tutu in a place
called the Fishtank in Darktide.
And I said, well, I suppose the home did burn down.
And I saw you here and thought you dead.
But if you are still alive,
why have you come here to the Underworld?
- To find out what happened.
- There she is, my little girl.
(Monét laughs)
My sweet Princess.
Look, if I can be of any aid while you venture down here,
I will do what I can.
But I have not found your mother or father here,
nor indeed your brother nor sister.
But I fear that they have passed.
It is possible that they have gone
deeper into the Underworld.
There are places here that devour souls,
hold onto them for eternity.
Places less wild than here by the river's edge.
(mournful emotional music)
I am so sorry, Princess.
I wish,
I wish only that,
I'm sure there is revenge you seek
in knowing now the name of the woman
who was the architect of our downfall.
I can imagine there is some freedom
in having a target for your vengeance.
But
Princess,
your best revenge is to leave this place and live your life.
Do not fall here in the Underworld.
- I promise.
- And he puts his head to your head,
looks around, and says, sorry for trying to board the whale.
My name is Kerwyn Foehammer,
I am the uncle of your companion, Princess.
I am deceased.
- It's okay.
You look nice though. - [Monét] Yeah.
- For a dead person. (Alaska laughing)
- What sexy tusks you have.
- Oh, thank you very much, I appreciate the compliment.
- He's cute.
- I was- - [Alaska] Cool.
- I was not married in life, and even if I was,
it's sort of till death do you part kind of thing.
- Yeah, yeah.
- If there can be of any service to you
traveling here in this realm, I would love to be.
Do you all accompany Princess on her quest here,
or do different matters bring you to the Underworld?
- We all have our own journeys here.
- Hmm, I understand.
Well yeah, I think I've kept up pretty well.
The nice thing about being killed by a death spell is,
you know, doesn't really mutilate you,
you just sort of, pow, stop your heart, you know?
- So, do you, can he kinda hang out
with us for a little bit? - [Brennan] Yeah.
- And come with us, and show us?
- Yeah, why not?
- Yeah, you know, if you're not doing anything.
(player laughing)
- I was trying to swim across the river
to get back to the world of the living.
- But that means you know everything where we wanna go,
like, right?
- I know some, certainly, but I can't-
- Well, how far could you get us?
- Depends on who you're trying to get to.
- Well, lemme look up my book.
- I wanna apologize to everyone,
because I realize that I fucked up.
I could've avoided all of this.
I had a spell called the Waterwalk
that can take 10 allies with me.
(players laughing)
We could've avoided the whale.
- Troyánna! - I'm sorry.
- We just fought all these skeletons and demons-
- I apologize, I apologize.
- The Waterwalk? - And you had me here
crying because her uncle came back from the dead.
- Sometimes (Brennan laughs)
I don't know my own strength.
- Oh my God, I hope you got that.
That was beautiful, it was a beautiful tear,
it just went, ff.
(Brennan laughing)
I am so- - You got the find
your cousin spell too?
- Waterwalk, you and up to 10 allies,
allies gain the ability to walk on water-
- You didn't have to tell us that though.
(Brennan laughing)
'Cause now we're mad. (Bob laughing)
I was sad, and now I'm mad.
(Brennan laughing)
- Kerwyn looks and says,
I would be more than happy to accompany you.
I would be of whatever, I, you find me
in a rather humbled state. (eerie droning music)
I have clearly been here attempting to swim across
an unswimmable river for what feels like an eternity.
But I certainly know the lands on this side of the river
as well as any dead soul.
But what brings you here?
There are some things
worth seeking and others not.
I imagine, you, I recognize,
you are Troyánn of Everdeep, yes?
- I am, yes.
Tis I, I've been here many times before.
- Well, I believe your friend with whom
you do business awaits in Hollowgrave.
You've come certainly by a back channel,
which is good enough as it is, the Janari,
which you would remember, Troyánn,
are a type of demon that kind of like
enforces the paths to the living.
They're not much threat to living people,
but they specifically stop the dead
from leaving the Underworld.
Says, the Janari have been out in force,
and I think your contact is waiting for you
in Hollowgrave at the Inn of the Empty Glass.
Something tells me you might be up to something
quite dangerous here in these realms.
- How's it work if we get,
if you go back up to the land of the living,
will he become alive again?
- Well, we have to give him the amulet.
- Waterwalk that bitch.
- No, the waith, not the amulet-
- The waith, the-
- Wraith Clasp.
- Yeah, 'cause he's dead. - The one with the red-
- It would do the reverse.
- Right.
- No, it would make him think he's alive.
- So, Wallace's gem now goes to you.
If- - I'm asking hypothetically,
like, I don't know how it works. - Hypothetically, so,
what you would know is that it's possible
for him to get back to the lands of the living.
But if he was not resurrected, if he,
if there was not a great healing magic
that could actually restore his life,
he would walk in the lands of the living as a dead spirit.
He would be, he would be- - But I could do that.
- You know, it might be something that was,
that would be worthwhile if he had someone
in particular to haunt. - You have Cure Wounds.
- Right. - But.
- You have that? - Couldn't I do that?
- Well, I don't know, read your healing, what does it say?
- I think, Twyla and Gertrude, you would know that
the magic to restore the dead to life,
there are forces that can do that.
- And I do know that.
- [Brennan] There are forces that can do that, and-
- There's a heavy cost.
- Heavy costs, and as you think of those forces,
I think you look, now that you're on this side,
the far side of the River of Sorrow.
And once again, (long whistling wind)
- We're glad we're undead now.
- Oh, we're alive, we are still alive.
- We are alive.
- We are very much alive.
- And hear a whisper, oh.
Thanara.
And you see there's a shudder that Kerwyn feels.
(tense droning music)
You have heard it then, the name of the Goddess of Death.
(Alaska gasps)
Thanara.
You see Kerwyn says,
she reigns here in the Underworld,
unworshiped by the living, but worshiped still by the dead.
To restore the dead to life,
a boon from her could be granted.
She would have that power,
but few living can wield it on their own,
not without her say so.
- Well, you're off to meet the wizard here.
- So yeah, but that means you have to come with us.
- So, we have options, we can either send him back,
and he can kinda look like he's alive up there-
- No, just come with us. - But I don't think,
he doesn't seem to want that either.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
I mean, this is your family, he should come with us.
- [Alaska] Yeah. - I think so.
- We'll have more help fighting.
- Even though he doesn't- - And more eye candy
on the road, you know?
- [Jujubee] Yeah, I mean, he did tell us,
he did tell you to leave, right?
- Well, he said, don't get trapped down here, like-
- Yeah, yeah- - She said the best thing-
- He didn't say leave right now, he just said, don't stay.
- We're not gonna get trapped down here.
- We won't.
- All right, so who should, you gonna ask him?
Should we ask, should I ask, who should ask?
- And you have your extra Wraith Clasp anyway,
you're the one that has two.
- Oh yeah.
- Well then, who did have have an extra Wraith Clasp?
He doesn't need it.
- But would that one one work for him though?
'Cause he's undead.
- He's already undead, he doesn't need one.
- Yeah, she's already dead. - All right.
- He looks at you and says, I know not your mission here,
but I would see my niece kept safe.
Certainly, (eerie spooky music)
I already would've protected you with my life,
and now I don't even have to worry about losing that.
So, I will keep you safe if I can.
- Great, let's do it.
- If you can. (record scratch)
I mean, look, a little bit better than that.
- Like, this is-
- I will definitely keep you safe.
- Okay, great. - [Bob] Be nice to her uncle,
Jesus Christ.
- All right, I got you, girl.
- [Brennan] I died, so, you know- - Yeah.
- He looks, and basically says,
you have made it across the river, the Hollowgrave.
There are some things I think worth you attending to there,
if you're looking for more information.
And you see here he says, Shalila of the Last Breath.
And you remember this, this is,
so we've now reached the farthest that Troyánn
has ever been in the Underworld.
Shalila is who you meet here to give your stuff to.
He's like, she waits for you there.
And I'll remind you, Troyánn, in this moment,
that you only have six of your seven souls that you need.
- Yeah, just missing the one that Keke stole
when she killed Jon Favreau.
- [Bob] Which I guess we still believe-
- No, when she kills Mark Ronson.
- Mark Ronson, sorry. - Jon Favreau?
- I don't know why I said Jon, anyway- (laughs)
- Which who we believe is on the way behind us,
we can still intercept his soul.
- Yes. So, are we already
at this point, or?
- It's up to you to decide what to do.
Kerwyn is here to help.
You can venture straight into the wastelands,
deeper into the Underworld if you want,
but you see a short distance away, Hollowgrave is there.
- I cannot get to Shalila without my seven-
- What soul do you need?
What specific souls do you need?
- Mark Ronson. - Mark Ronson's.
- Or one of equal value. - Yeah.
- Which was stolen by her cousin.
- But which one, which one is equal value though?
- Mark Ronson.
- Is your uncle equal value?
- 'Cause no one- - His soul's already here.
- Yeah, no one else's, no one else,
everyone here besides us, can I kill one of you?
- Not me. - Can we let him go,
and bring him back?
- [Bob] You literally can't kill me.
- No. - His soul's already here,
his soul's already been taken,
someone got his soul, and it's gone.
- Keke has the soul.
- Can I disguise myself as a soul?
- No, 'cause I need to put you in my Soul Amulet bag.
- Kerwyn looks and says, there is someone who is in town
in Hollowgrave right now.
If you wanted to try to sneak in,
and see them before going to Shalila.
I don't know if you would've
had much business with him before,
and it's rare that he comes through Hollowgrave.
But there is Nyruth, he is a Bisaliane,
and he's a jackal-headed demon.
He sells many magical wares, powerful artifacts,
weaponry, things of that nature.
And I think he's been known to dabble
in trading souls once or twice.
So, if you needed something specific,
it's possible he would have something that could
fulfill that seventh slot for you,
but he will bargain for it dearly.
- We got two things- - I think we go there
because I don't know how long Keke gonna take.
- Yeah, we should go there.
- Yeah, let's go there, and see what he's got.
- It's kinda the only way.
- Yeah. - Let's go see Nyruth.
- Kerwyn throws the sword on his back, and says,
well, an adventure I was not expecting,
but a very exciting one.
Ladies, allow me to show you to the Underworld.
Walking up a shadowy hillside, again almost,
it's so alien and strange here,
and no life or plant matter grows,
and there's only these strange tendrils of pulsing magic,
and far off in the sky, distant sights of other platforms
and dungeons floating off in the lavender-purple
ether of the Underworld's sort of pulsing light.
You journey along the river up this small stony ridge,
and look down at the town of Hollowgrave.
Hollowgrave is a strange sort of place,
a town in the Underworld. (eerie gentle music)
And you see that the buildings kind of grow up
catty corner almost, it's almost like the geography,
or the architecture doesn't make sense.
Things that should've toppled over
instead stay kind of leaning at terrifying angles.
You see that some of the shingles on the roofs will like,
deteriorate, and as they come loose,
will fall up into the sky, rather than falling down.
The town is built around the harbor of a ferry,
and this long, ancient ebony wood ferry boat
that has two sort of curling dragons heads on either side
with a rope that allows the boat to move
from one side of the river to the other.
This is sort of the official entry point.
Troyánn has taken this ferry like,
many times in her journeys here.
The town's sort of grown up around it,
and you see for the first time that
not only are there some spirits of the dead here in town
that seem to have some reason to dwell eternally
in sight of this like exit to the lands of the living,
but there are also many demons here,
spirits of the Underworld. (eerie gentle music)
I think those of you who would know,
or have interacted with demons before,
their motives are not pure.
But when we say demons, we don't necessarily mean
that they are intent on the destruction
of all living things, but rather that they are just
creatures of the Underworld.
Their business concerns the dead.
They are a much different sight than the dead souls
who have gathered around here.
You see, some of them you recognize as the Janari
that we've mentioned before.
These are like seven foot tall, they're like reptilian,
but almost sort of kind of amphibious,
got these broad wart-covered shoulders,
these squat frog-like heads,
but with rows and rows of serrated teeth like sharks.
They have three eyes, one in the center,
and two kind of off on the corners of their head.
And they move around with these large weapons,
and spell books as sort of enforcers
of this way station of the afterlife.
- I know a club promoter who looks kinda like that.
(Brennan laughs)
- I know the one. - Yeah, you,
yeah, yeah. (laughing)
- Walking up, you see a couple of different areas,
and Kerwyn points them out, Princess's uncle.
There's the place you recognize, Troyánn,
which is the Inn of the Empty Glass.
This is where you've met Shalila in the past.
Normally, when things are going well,
your life is supposed to be, take the ferry,
cross the river, go to the inn,
make the deal, get out. (pastoral acoustic music)
You see the inn of the Empty Glass there,
and Kerwyn also points out off in the distance
that there is a squat stone tower made of like
a black volcanic stone that shimmers, almost glass-like.
But Kerwyn refers to that and says, that there's the,
the Archive of Forgotten Things, place of arcane knowledge,
magic, things of that like.
If you're looking for Nyruth, the-
- The abbey. - What's that?
- The abbey?
- Yeah, he'll be outside the abbey there
at the Longshadow Bazaar.
- That's right, that's right, he's a jackal-headed demon.
- And he says, now, you gotta be careful with Nyruth,
because again, he drives a hard bargain.
So, I'll just say to be on your guard.
But you'll find him there outside of the Archives.
So, where do all of you journey to here in Hollowgrave?
- I'd like to just envision
you getting a piggyback ride from your uncle.
(Alaska grumbles)
- My sweet little Princess! (Bob laughing)
- [Brennan] Oh God, oof! Wow!
- Feet just dragging on the ground.
(Brennan laughing)
All right, well.
- We should go,
- You know this place better than any of us.
- I do.
And I think,
let's do it.
Walking- - What do we do?
We just walk over there?
- I mean- - I've never been here-
- Is it far?
- You're sort of up on a little ridge,
looking down at the town.
The big points of interest are, I mean,
there is the Archive that has the little
marketplace outside of it. - Okay.
- There is the inn, which is sort of, you know,
where you go to meet this person.
And then there's the ferry back to the lands of the living.
So, if you wanna just go deal straight with Nyruth,
you'd probably head right over to the bazaar,
to the marketplace.
- And we have, and you, we are in a water town,
so you have Waterwalk, just keep that in mind.
(Brennan and Alaska laughing)
- I have a question, we can't, like,
you can't like buy things in this game, right?
You can't like- - You can buy things.
- Okay.
- Now, buying them in the Underworld is something that you,
that Troyánn has not done before.
The market, the, you've heard some stories
about the fact that people tend not to just
take straight cash at that marketplace,
they tend to ask for things that
are a little bit harder to come by.
- Now Troyánn, I don't,
I've never been down here, and I do have a lot of anxiety.
So, I'm gonna be looking toward you
for a little bit of guidance,
since these are kinda your stomping grounds.
- Well. (tense guitar music)
- What do we want from Nyruth?
- A soul. - We want the soul,
so that you can go to what's her name.
- Shalila. - Shalila.
- Shalele. (Monét laughs)
- Shanjila. (Alaska laughs)
- So I can, because I'm trying to-
- Shanjila. - Shanjila.
(Bob hoots)
I'm trying to get the soul, 'cause I have six souls,
I need seven, I can do the swap with Ms. Thing.
- Nyruth. - Nyruth,
so that I can get the seventh soul.
- Okay, so what do we have?
What do we have between us?
Okay, we have five Wraith, six Wraith Clasps-
- No, five Wraiths, and I have a separate amulet.
- No, you have the extra Wraith one-
- And a corrupted one, yeah. - You have the corrupted-
- Oh yeah, like, right, the corrupted one.
- I have a Torch- - So, yeah, we-
- A Tinderbox, an Herbalism Kit, a Crystal,
a Dagger, a Quarterstaff, and Witch's Garb.
What do you guys have?
- I have a Tutu.
(music stops)
(players laughing)
- That's all you have in your-?
- No, I have a whole bunch of like,
the things I'm, like, weapons, and stuff I'm using,
but I also have a Signet Ring.
- Ooh, what does a Signet Ring do?
- Your Signet Ring is used by nobility.
It's a ring with your family's crest on it
that you use to seal letters in wax,
so that people know that it is from a member of your family.
So, very precious. - Ooh, that's some, yeah.
- Very precious, but it's also
one of the last heirlooms of your family.
- Yeah, I don't wanna get rid of it.
- We can get you some new stuff, let's do that.
- I'm not getting rid of that.
- Well, also, Uncle might have one.
- Yeah, he got one.
- I have playing cards we can get rid of.
- You have playing cards?
- What if we beat his ass?
- But what do the playing cards do?
Are, is it like, are we just playing "Uno?"
- You mentioned, so, I think
you may just have some "Uno" cards.
- Yeah, so I feel like we can convince this motherfucker
that these playing cards are really fantastic.
You don't hear this, (Brennan laughs)
really fantastic playing cards.
- Well, let's see what deception we roll.
(players laughing) - [Monét] You right.
- I think that between us, what,
so do you have anything of value, you think?
- Yeah, I mean, there's a Crystal, and-
- Hmm. - And I have a-
- How about the Seed of All Blossom?
But I need that. (Bob gasps)
- [Bob] No, you trying to eat it- - No.
- Maybe we can trade, we have so many Wraith,
we have, maybe we can trade the-
- We have five.
- The Wraith Clasp- - We have six.
- We have six, so we can trade one of those,
'cause I don't need that, I have,
I already have my amulet that lets me come down here,
so I don't need that. - Yeah.
Well, the one that we don't need is the one
that an undead would use. - So,
maybe we can give that for a soul.
- [Jujubee] 'Cause the person's an undead person, right?
- He's not, he's a demon, he's not undead.
- Okay. - But they can probably use it
to put in a potion to make something else.
- We could ask him.
- So, I'd say let's head there.
- You journey down to the Longshadow Bazaar.
Here in the lee of the Archives,
you see many stalls, and different sort of little shops
selling potions and mysterious things.
It's again, strange to have a marketplace
here in the lands of the dead,
but you see many things being sold.
You see there's a strange sort of like beetle-headed
sort of apothecary being like, potions of memory,
long lost love, things of dream and hope
that have suffered and died here in the lands of the dead.
And you quickly sort of leave that place behind.
And you see a very well appointed shop.
A lot of these places are sort of open air stalls,
but you approach an actual store,
it has a little beautiful gold (eerie extravagant music)
embossment on a glass pane in the set in the door that says,
Nyruth's Curios. - Oh God.
- And you see many magical objects through the window.
And you see there is a demon inside wearing
beautiful silk robes of many different
shifting geometric patterns and designs.
Has long, sort of fur covered paws
that nonetheless have these long, curling clawed fingers.
The jackal fur on his head is quite gray
as though advanced with age,
and he has a small little pointed cap on his head,
and a pair of gold-rimmed rectangular spectacles
that go all the way down his long jackal snout,
and kind of rest towards the edge of his nose.
He looks up and says, oh, welcome, please, come in.
Customers, welcome, welcome.
- Oh, he's so well spoken.
- Kerwyn looks at you and says,
I better not show my face here, Princess.
- Mm.
- I'll keep watch on the street.
As the four of you enter,
you see Nyruth looks up, and says,
well, welcome one and all to Nyruth's Curios.
If you're just here to browse,
feel free to peruse the goods and wares,
but if I may be of any service at all, you need simply ask.
- Okay, before we go ask, so we're gonna try
to sell your crystal, one of, the extra amulet.
- I don't even know what my crystal does.
What does- - What crystal is it?
- It just says 'crystal'.
- Your crystal is one of your arcane foci,
something you use in spell casting.
You could get rid of it, but then you'd be let,
you'd be in a lot of trouble if you lost your staff.
So, you'd just be down to your staff for casting spells
if you got rid of your crystal.
- Yeah, just- - Don't do that.
- Yeah, sell your arcane stuff, hand off my crystals,
sell your stuff- - Like, it just said crystal,
like- - [Bob] You're the one-
- I thought it was just some obsidian or something,
I don't know what you got.
- You don't wanna sell my playing cards?
- You're the one short a soul.
Are we gonna do an honest deal,
or we gonna try to trick this guy?
- Well, if he wants the cards, it's,
he's not really being tricked.
- Do you really have playing cards?
- Yes, it's playing cards. - It literally
says playing cards.
- Okay, (laughs) then let's try to sell these "Uno" cards.
- You gonna try to, so what, if this,
what if this deal goes wrong, and he's like,
gets mad or something?
- Then we'll fight his ass.
- We can fight, we just beat up a dozen dead zombie people.
- I mean, I have medals of valor too,
I don't really care. - You, what else-
You are holding out, just-
- I read my whole list,
what do y'all have on y'all's goddamn list?
- Y'all weren't listening to me
when we were just going down the-
- "All I have is playing cards."
- Do you want me to tell you what I got?
- [Monét] Yeah. - Yes.
- Well, you can't have this,
the fae armor, the longbow, the two short swords,
playing cards you can have,
and medals of valor I'll give to you as well,
'cause I don't think I need that, I know I'm great.
I don't need those.
(players laughing)
- Nice.
- Okay, so we have medals of valor to trade, playing cards.
Let's try the playing cards and medal of valor.
And we have the extra Wraith Clasp we can try.
- Yeah, we should try like one Wraith Clasp,
and then if he doesn't bite, we can do two.
- Now, you didn't hear all this.
- But what about the playing cards?
I'm pretty sure it's like a series card-
- Let's start with the playing cards.
- Yeah.
- It sound like they're weighing you down,
and you wanna get rid of them.
- I just. (players laughing)
Listen.
- She wants to get rid of them way more.
- [Jujubee] I have these playing cards.
- Do you go up to Kelvorda often?
- Oh, when was the last time I was up there?
It might have been more than a century ago at this point.
- Okay, so you don't know how big these playing cards are?
They are kind of a big deal. - Yeah, yeah.
- In fact, you, oh, put your gloves on to show them,
'cause you know, you can't touch them with your hands.
So, show him the cards, they're really nice.
- Look at these cards, honey.
- He takes a like little telescoping set
of very powerful jeweler's eyeglasses.
And he's like, let me just put on my appraising spectacles.
- Don't touch them, please.
(Brennan clicking) (device clicking)
- Well, that looks like a set of soldier's playing cards.
Extraordinary.
You see, he looks at them, I'm going to need
a persuasion check from you,
and I'm gonna set the difficulty ahead of time
to let you know how hard this is gonna be.
So, you're gonna roll your d20,
the persuasion check here, the difficulty is 25.
- My persuasion is a plus eight.
- So you need a 17 or higher.
- Oh honey. - Oh my God,
okay, you can do it, Gert.
(die clicks)
(Bob laughs) - A one?
(downcast whoosh)
- Is that a one?
- It's a, it's giving a one. - [Alaska] Oh my god. No!
- [Brennan] It's giving a one- - [Bob] It's giving a one.
- Fuck the playing cards.
(players laugh)
- You sure, there's so many of them.
- No.
Nyruth looks at you and says, now,
it is a very rare and precious thing
for four living mortals to come and visit me here.
Although mortals might be a bit of a stretch
in some of our cases.
(Alaska gasps)
But I'll say this. - Ooh.
- You are welcome to lie to me as much as you'd like,
but if you do so again, I will simply
have to close early for the day.
- We didn't lie to you.
- Don't, don't, don't lie- - Don't antagonize him.
(Brennan laughs and claps hands)
- Did you not just hear? What the? (players laughing)
- We be clear, everybody gets one, so that was yours.
(Bob laughing)
- Twyla. - Wait a minute, where was the lie?
- Just stop!
- Where was the lie? - Shh, wait, you, wait-
- Tell me where the lie was.
- Hey ladies, ladies, ladies, group up.
- Can you be a spell caster? - Ladies, group up.
- You know what?
Lemme go invisible.
Oh wait, I can't. - Group up, group up.
Twyla, you are a loose cannon.
- But we, I have Borderline Personality Disorder.
- I, and I hear that, but we are trying to,
we do not wanna upset this-
- But what did we lie about?
We just didn't lie, we were just trying to sell him cards.
- No, we told him they were rare, and they're not.
- It was, it, yeah.
- These are rare. (Bob laughs)
- To you.
- You see, Nyruth interjects and says,
the cards themselves are not rare,
but your attachment to them is.
(Jujubee gasps)
- Ooh, shade.
- Wow, you're a steak, and it's well done.
(Brennan laughing)
- So, we gotta offer the guy something fast
Let's not upset him.
- [Alaska] Okay.
(Jujubee laughing)
- Actually, we need to come correct.
- We're looking for a soul.
(Bob gasps)
Right?
- Are we, did you just tell him?
Are we just telling him? - Are we not?
- Look, look- - We are,
are we telling him? - That's what we need.
- [Bob] Yeah, are we gonna tell him? - Well, now he knows.
- Are you trying to say a soul for a soul?
- Don't say that! - [Jujubee] But y'all!
- No. - [Bob] Whoo, whoo-hoo!
- [Brennan] You see Nyruth perks, like his little ears-
- But- - [Jujubee] Oh-
Are you guys planning
on giving me away?
- No, we're not. - [Alaska] Shit.
- Yeah. - I think you are.
- Now at this point, yes.
- Gerty, we said no more lies, yeah, we are.
(players laughing)
We're thinking about it.
(Jujubee laughs)
We're considering it. - That's more lies.
- [Jujubee] Okay! - Ah!
- We're just thinking about- - [Monét] We're thinking about it.
- We're just thinking about it.
- I wanna disguise myself as the water.
(players laughing) - Oh my.
- So, you see, Twyla vanishes,
and there is a pool of deep water,
and the jackal goes, well, I've never seen that.
(players laughing)
- All right, if this is the three of us going-
- Okay, here's the thing, I have Fog Cloud, okay?
It is a spell I can cast- - Just standing
in a pool of water right now, go ahead.
- It's, and it just- - And I'm just wet!
- It's a spell you can cast to create
a deep bank of concealing fog.
Can we steal from?
(Bob gasps)
- Yes, you can steal if you want.
There is, of course, a tremendous risk associated with that.
But that is absolutely an option.
- No risk, no reward.
- No risk for no reward.
That's also a card that you could keep up your sleeve
if things, if you like exhaust
one pathway- - Okay.
- [Brennan] Having that up your sleeve of like,
if things go really bad, we can always-
- I know what you're selling,
I know what you're selling. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You see Nyruth looks and says, let me not be misunderstood,
to all of you, and this puddle of water.
(players laughing)
What I mean to say is, I am deeply uninterested
in your playing cards as dross, crass material objects.
However, there are things ethereal
and ephemeral associated with those cards.
Your memory of what they meant to you.
- You're talking to a pond right now.
(Bob laughs)
- And I wanna get wet.
(players laughing)
- Now I wanna keep the cards.
(players laughing)
Now I wanna keep them. - My memory of the cards?
- If I'm not much mistaken,
you have the bearing, or did before you were a puddle,
you had the bearing of a soldier.
(Jujubee mmhmms)
It's been a long time since I saw the ferries coming
in hour by hour by hour filled with fairies
who had been slain in that war.
Terrible. (eerie downcast music)
My belief is that those cards may indeed
have memories attached to them
of long nights of camaraderie, friendship, joy.
Memories like that are as nectar to the gods
for the damned souls who dwell in this Underworld.
Memories of joy and friendship I can sell
to the withered souls of this place.
So, I'm not interested in your cards
unless they come with the memories attached to them.
- So, if we give, if she gives up the memory,
she'll forget, she'll never, that's something she-
- I don't like that because that means that I can't-
- Well, does it mean, is that what it means?
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- That means I can't- - Should we-
- I can't go with what I'm supposed to be doing, so no.
- You would be- - That's dark sided.
- Yeah. (Brennan laughing)
Yeah, like, that means that like,
the whole like point of me being down here
makes no sense if you take my memories away.
- Yeah, don't do that.
- You see Nyruth says, perhaps you are concerned
that I would completely obliterate your identity.
I am very surgical with my magic.
(Jujubee mmhmms)
Only those memories associated with the cards themselves.
Any memories of your family, or your leaders,
I'm sure you would keep,
it's just those nights around the campfire
I'm most interested in.
- Well, how about I give you one card,
so you get one memory?
- Might consider it,
but it depends on what you're trying to buy.
And it sounds like you're trying
to buy something very dear indeed.
- Just tell him, just tell him,
just tell him what you want.
- How many memories is that?
- Just tell him what you want.
- I need a soul.
- You need a soul? - I need a soul.
A soul for a memory sounds like a great exchange to me.
- Some might say a Monét X Change.
(players laughing)
- Yes, an exchange of something more priceless than Monét.
(Jujubee laughs)
I would consider it, but a single card by itself
be hard to come by, the memories are associated
with the hands, the deck, the game itself.
Is there anything else (fingers drumming)
that you might be able to throw to sweeten the deal?
- And we offer the extra Wraith thing.
Why am I whispering?
We offer the extra Wraith-
- The Clasp. - [Monét] Wraith Clasp.
- We do have one extra Wraith Clasp, that sweetens the deal.
- But- - [Alaska] Yeah.
- But not the one that we'd use.
- No, but uncle doesn't need the Wraith Clasp 'cause he's-
- We have one extra.
- You have the corrupted one, which the-
- I have a corrupted one. - We have the corrupted one,
and one extra.
- Shit, I think we should give the one extra,
'cause I feel the corrupted one would have more value-
- Could be used for uncle.
- So, let's start with the one extra Wraith Clasp.
- [Jujubee] Yeah.
- So, as you've heard, right,
like what he's basically said is like,
he sells to the dead.
So you know that corrupted Wraith Clasp
is gonna be worth a lot down here. (claps hands)
- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- So if you throw that extra Wraith Clasp in front of him,
I will give you another chance at that persuasion check.
- Who should, well, should you roll it?
- Well, she has the extra one. - [Monét] Oh yeah.
- She has the one, but you can also add a d6
to your persuasion as well,
you have that commanding presence-
- Oh- - That you can use here too.
- Okay. - [Brennan] Cool.
- Yeah.
- So, go ahead and roll that d20,
add your persuasion. (die clicks)
- Six plus five.
- Looking at the playing card and the Wraith Clasp,
he says, a Wraith Clasp.
I haven't seen one of those in a little while, very useful.
I would be willing to consider bargaining
with some of my souls for what you've put in front of me.
But unfortunately, those are only of use to the living,
and precious few of those come through my shop.
(tense droning music)
(sighs) So, I'm afraid I'll need something
a little bit more to sweeten the deal.
- Ladies, gather up.
- Wait a minute, we just-
- Pss, pss, pss, pss, pss, pss, pss-
- Are we giving him three things now?
- Well, he's, they said he drives a hard bargain,
we were warned probably three times
that it's gonna cost a lot.
- If I were you, I would let us do it,
because you are on the docket, baby.
- A loose cannon- - You are-
- Well, you have it out for the, (laughs)
did you know this guy?
- Well, see, maybe he hit me up online once,
and then ghosted me. - Maybe?
'Cause it sounds like- - And now I know
why he ghosted me, 'cause he's a fucking demon!
- Demon, here's the thing, I just,
in case things go here,
I'm not saying we should go there,
but in case things go here,
I have something called Darkness, creates an area of magical
shadows that obscure sight.
If we need to just grab and run,
I could throw some Darkness.
- Don't know where he keeps the souls in the shop.
- We could, we're gonna, we can find out.
He, we'll have him bring it out.
We'll give him, we'll, we can,
we could give him an offer he can't refuse.
I could cast Darkness.
You two can see in the dark.
Can I see in the dark?
- No, but can-
- No, I do, I have Eyes in the Dark,
I can see 120 feet in the dark.
- Can you see in the dark? - With no light.
- I can disguise myself as a flashlight.
(players laughing)
- You are out of control.
So, we those are options, we could, I could-
- Okay.
- We can either give the actual bargain,
give him the thing, which we could end up
using for someone later, or just Darkness, steal, run.
- I think we say when we offer him these things,
and when he brings out the soul, power, snatch,
don't give him anything, leave.
- We're gonna double cross.
- But he's gonna fight us though, right?
- We don't know, he's old, he's an old man. - [Jujubee] Yes, but if he does-
- So, we have agreed we are going to give him
an offer he can't refuse. - [Monét] Yes.
- And we're not actually gonna follow through.
- We're not.
- All right, here we go. - That's shady though.
- So fucking shady. - Oh well.
- He said not to lie.
- [Bob] Well, I know. - He did.
All right, here we go.
Oh shit.
- [Bob] We've decided, yeah, so.
- Wonderful, it went completely quiet in here,
and you all were giving each other these intense looks
like you were talking telepathically.
- [Alaska] Ah! - Yeah, I was using,
I was using Message there for sure. (players laughing)
So, it has occurred to me.
- Hmm?
- That I just remembered that we do
have a corrupted Wraith Clasp,
(Brennan gasps)
that you could use, it's for your undead friends.
- You don't say.
- Show him. Wait!
what, what, what for?
Can we see?
I mean, you show us, show and tell,
you show us, we show you.
- Well, excuse me.
He moves a ladder attached to a railing
like the ones you see in libraries,
and he moves through this huge like, index card,
like, sort of small little files, and begins to root around.
And as he opens one, blood red light emerges from it,
as you hear him clacking through
what you recognize must be hundreds of captured souls.
(tense eerie music) - Ugh.
- Let's see here.
And I think this is for who it's for.
And do give my regards to Shalila when you see her. (Monét and Alaska gasp)
- Shanjayla.
- [Bob] Shayjayla. (players laugh)
With her death drop.
- He says, ah, I believe this
might be what you're looking for.
This red gem pulses with light.
This is the soul of Oliver Leiber,
the famed producer who composed
"Opposites Attract" by Paula Abdul.
(Bob gasps) - Oh!
- Remember MC Skat Kat?
- Yeah, I do, yeah- - Yeah-huh.
- Incredible, yep, yep, "two steps forward, one step back."
- Great guy.
Okay, now at this moment. (Brennan laughing)
Now that we have the amulet in our hand.
All right, it is time. (intense dramatic music)
It's on, ladies, well, first of all,
before I cast Darkness, I need you to look
where the door is so you can make a beeline,
'cause you can't see in the dark.
- Where is, tell me where the door is.
- It's the one we came in.
(players laughing)
- Where did we come in?
- We came in behind us. - The back left,
the back left. - [Jujubee] Somebody hold my hand!
- [Monét] The back right, go for it. - I'll hold,
can you grab her hand?
You're big and strong. - Yeah.
- Okay. - Just ride on me.
- All right. I'm gonna, I'm going to cast Darkness.
- And I take the amulet, I put it in my satchel,
I mean, the soul.
- And well, it is now full on dark in this.
So, what happens is, as Troyánn grabs the soul-
- The soul.
- Gertrude opens her mouth, and then a pool
of just black fog comes rushing out of her mouth.
It is just, ff! (fog whooshing)
It fills the entire room, it's swirling from the floor
like a liquid.
It has filled the entire room.
- And my skin starts to go bioluminescent
'cause that's how I see in the dark,
'cause I can see with over 60 feet in front of me
by the bioluminescence, so you can see a little bit too.
- See, my eyes white out, like, I don't have any pupils,
and I can see, yeah, about 120 feet.
And this shop is, how big is the shop?
- Oh, it's like 40 feet by 40 feet.
- Oh, so, yeah, I can see great with no light.
- And I disguise myself as your hair.
- Okay, werk.
- So then, I'm just there with you, baby. - (laughing) Werk.
- It's like 30 feet of hair, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's her mop.
- Okay, on her, yes. - Oh, well, I'm-
- That's her mop. - That's my line.
- My hair's up in a ponytail.
- Okay, well, I'm the tip of the ponytail.
- There we go.
- Yeah. - Unbelievable.
All right, so it's like this tense moment of negotiation,
and suddenly it's just like, cheese it!
(players laughing)
We gotta get outta here!
(Brennan imitates eruption)
And darkness erupts from your mouth.
I'm gonna need everyone here,
'cause it's gonna be quick act,
I'm gonna everyone here to roll initiative once again.
- All right. - Oh God.
- Initiative. - [Brennan] Whew.
- We still do the d20, right? (dice clicking)
- Dirty 20. - Oh, the dirty 20.
- Wait, really, wait, really? - Oh, oh!
- [Brennan] A nat 20? - I'm nat 20.
- I'm nat 20! - [Brennan] A nat 20!
(players shouting over each other)
- Okay, okay, I have an eight, does that?
I have an eight.
- [Brennan] You have an eight. - Aw, Gerty!
- So, you're taking- - I have anxiety!
(players laughing)
- So, I think that you,
it's like that performance anxiety,
if you're like, all right, time to make darkness, bluh!
And it's just too much, it just keeps coming,
you just can't stop making darkness come outta your mouth.
So, with these two nat 20s, I believe on a 20,
you get a 34. - Yep, nat 20 plus 14,
34, damn. (snaps fingers) - Mine's 25.
- Incredible, so, Twyla, Troyánn, Princess,
as it goes dark, what is it that you do?
I'll also say this, Twyla,
you have the ability as a Gloom Stalker Ranger,
you can see in this darkness.
- Oh, so I can see.
- You can see in the darkness.
And for you two, this darkness is actually,
because it's of a magical nature,
even this darkness is obscuring your vision.
But you remember where the door-
- I feel like you knew that before we cast the spell, Brennan!
- [Brennan] You, but it's all good,
you remember where the door is.
- [Monét] Yeah. - So you know,
but you might have to make a check
to like get safely through the shop.
Twyla, we're gonna start with you.
- That won't disguise us then?
I'm sorry to cut you off.
- No worries, you can help disguise-
- Well, no one can see anything.
- But you, yeah, you- - Ooh, it's us.
- So, Twyla, you can see- - And then I can lead.
- You can see, so you could actually
help your friends get to the door safely if you wanted to.
- Oh, if I want to.
- [Brennan] (laughs) If you want to!
- Well, I would love to, (player gasps)
because my friends are my family.
Even though there are things that you say about me
in the Underworld that I can hear.
(Brennan laughing) - We're sorry.
- We're saying them to you, so,
(Jujubee laughing)
we assume you can hear them 'cause we're saying them
directly to you.
- Ladies- - [Alaska] Let's get out.
- Let's get out. - [Monét] Let's do it.
- Yeah. - Whoo!
- Come on, Twy.
- Incredible.
I cannot believe, Bob, how good Darkness is.
This guy has so many spells that can instantly kill people
that he has to be able to see.
- Oh, werk! - And. (laughing)
- That's so insane.
- You're in so much danger right now, and this-
- But he can't see them though.
- He can't see you, he cannot see you.
- We gotta get far from this tavern,
this bazaar, this haberdasherie.
Not a haber-, that's where they make hats.
- Okay, Twyla, you grab the hands of Troyánn and Princess,
and all three of you are just, you've got the soul,
and you're booking it for the door?
- So I'm like this.
- All of you burst with Gertrude's shadows
still like clinging to your body as you burst from the door.
Kerwyn whips around, and goes, oh,
did something go wrong in there, is everything all right?
And unfortunately, Nyruth is going to act before Gertrude.
Now, I have to look up, 'cause he has a Dispel Magic.
- Wait, am I by myself in here now? - Wait, we're already out?
- Well, you were all running for the door at the same time.
(Bob gasps) - I'm so sorry.
- Well, I can see in the dark,
I can see through magical darkness.
- Yes, you can see through- - Which is nice.
- You can see through magical darkness.
- [Alaska] Oh no. - Am I by myself in here?
- Yeah, Gerty, I think you are.
- I can't cast a spell from outside for-
- [Monét] Yeah, I can't do anything. - I have anxiety.
- 'Cause you know I have that power
to turn his ass really tiny.
- Do you now, you have a shrinking spell?
- Yes, yes, girl, look at this one.
- What is it called, tell me. - Enlarge/Reduce,
shrink or grow an enemy or ally.
- Oh my God, werk. - I know.
Maybe that's why I'm so small.
- Maybe, maybe you're-
- Shrunk myself. - [Alaska] Uh-huh.
- I am in here close to this upset demon.
- Well, you caused it, baby.
- Knees buckling.
- Oh man.
- Darkness is just, yeah, darkness is just coming out,
it will not stop. - [Jujubee] Didn't I tell you why-
- She's still like, ah.
- Okay, this is what's going to happen.
That darkness spell was an incredible
bit of sorcery on your part.
He has so many powerful spells,
but unfortunately, all of the most powerful,
he needs to be able to see you.
So, he's going to spend his turn
doing the one thing he can do,
which is dispelling your Darkness spell.
So, in other words, all of you burst out the door,
and you see Nyruth goes,
I'm afraid shoplifting is not appreciated! (imitates vaccuum)
And his jackal lips purse, and he sucks the darkness
into his mouth. - Oh.
- (Imitates vaccuum) Hello, friend.
It is your turn to act, the Darkness is gone,
but he's used his turn, and it is now your turn.
- Now, what do you do now?
- [Bob] Okay. - But we're just
all staring at, in the window like, no!
- (silent) Go out through the door. - Okay, this is wild.
Okay, so I have, okay, so I know that he can dispel.
- Yes. - So if I cast spells,
he can dispel them. (intense dramatic music)
- But not until his turn.
- Not until his turn.
And he can also kill me in one move, with one spell.
So, I have Counterspell? (Brennan mmhmms)
(Jujubee gasps) Which can,
so, okay, would Counterspell-
- [Brennan] Wait a minute.
- Oh my gosh.
- You can Counterspell the dispelling he just did.
I just wanna make it clear 'cause you're playing
with these rules for the first time,
and Sorcerer's very complicated.
Normally, Counterspell only works
if you can see the other person,
but you can see through magical darkness.
- Ooh! - Got it.
- So, if you want to dispel his dispel,
if you want to counter his Dispel Magic,
you can absolutely do that.
- Hey, can I also, I can't dash as well?
- You can dash as well, and then it's your turn,
you can take a double move, and sprint out of the store.
- Yes, I'm dashing 60 feet,
and the room is only 40 feet, as you said.
- [Brennan] Yes, that's correct.
- We are just regurgitating and regurgitating
the same red smoke all over the room.
It actually looks kinda disgusting.
(Brennan laughing)
So, they're both kinda floating in the air
with the smoke going between their mouths.
- Y'all said 'Covid who?'
(players laughing)
- Droplets everywhere, and then as the smoke
is just refilling the room, they're both just,
their lips are almost this close to each other.
And then she decides to dash.
Once the room is refilled with smoke,
she decides to make a dash for the door.
And then she's like, we need to fucking go!
(players laughing)
- Incredible, so, (gasps)
he just like, his lungs filled with smoke,
the lips so close together, wait, (imitates wind rushing)
Hit outta the shop.
All of you hit the street, and bail, boom-
- And he can't move that fast, he's old, so we gotta go.
- You hear, oh, just a howl from that,
and saying, return that soul to me, thieves!
(coughing) Fuck!
(players laughing)
And the smoke, ugh, shadow coming out of his lungs.
All of you sprint out of there as fast as you can.
I'm gonna need a group stealth check
to try to like avoid, like, he's calling for the guards,
they're those big like frog demons around.
- I need this to be good. - Fuck.
- Let's get a stealth check. - And he's got it out for me.
- Yeah. (laughs) (panicked orchestral music)
- Nine. - [Bob] What do you got, Mo?
Mo, what is it, Mo?
- Oh, not a one. - [Bob] Mo...
- One. - A damn one.
...nét.
- Oh no.
- Oh God, okay. (die clicks)
(tense dramatic music)
Oh my God! - What?
- It's a one! (players laughing)
Yo, we're fucked, this jackal is,
you need to, okay, can we rely on,
or are we just fucked already?
- Well, you got two nat ones.
If you were to cast Pass Without Trace, which it's,
I'm gonna say that- - Should I roll still, or no?
- You can still roll, if Twyla wants
to cast Pass Without Trace- - Uh-huh?
- First of all, Twyla would have to beat nine,
which would become a 19.
But the way group checks work is you just use
the top half of the results.
So theoretically, we could cancel these ones out-
- Okay, you get a high roller. - As long as we get higher.
But unfortunately, a nine is still not very high as well.
- So, what do we need now?
- So, we would, I think, Twyla,
if you cast Pass Without Trace,
it'll be the last of your powerful spells that you can cast,
at least until you get like a full rest.
So, does it feel important in this moment to do that,
or do you want to play it without magic?
- I feel like we should do that.
- (quietly) Yeah. - [Brennan] Okay.
- 'Cause that's the only way to save us.
- Are we gonna be able to get rest in town?
There is an inn here, isn't there?
- [Brennan] So, there's an inn. - I'll just disguise
myself as a bed.
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] I love it. - Oh my god.
- So, once again, you call- - You're a twin.
- You call on that fairy shadow magic,
so now we're gonna roll your stealth check.
So, roll your stealth check here.
We need to beat, we still wanna beat that-
- Come on, Twyla. - Come on, we need like a-
- Come on, Twy. - A lucky 13,
that's your number. (tense suspenseful music)
- (whisper) Okay, I never ask you for anything.
(Brennan laughing)
This is what I want, and I know you're really busy.
(Jujubee gasps) (die clicks)
Ah, no! - What, a one?
- A one! - A one!
- [Brennan] Three ones! - This
is un-fucking-believable.
- This is crazy! - What?
- Why did you make me do that? - The table is weighted,
it's magnets. (players laughing)
It's magnets. - Oh, what?
I don't get this.
- It's magnets, I know what you all are doing over there.
- [Bob] The producers are- - In video village
- The game is rigged! - I see you.
- I smell a stunt. - Rigor mortis!
- So people, hold on- - Okay, what's hap?
- What happened? (downcast piano music)
- Okay, so, tell us.
- So, here's what happens.
You all, this went off without a hitch, baby.
- I hate my life. - You got that soul,
sprint down the street.
You turn a corner, and all of you full, like,
"Three Stooges" style, brah!
Right into the chest of a hulking Janari demon.
- Oh God.
- Is he bigger than her?
- No, he is not bigger than Princess.
- Okay. - He's still seven feet tall.
But you see that there are about five of them right here.
- Whoa. - [Alaska] Whoa!
- Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Turn, and you see that, I'm gonna need,
with three nat ones, we have to honor how unlucky that is.
So, I am going to need- - Oh we do?
- A Dexterity saving throw from Troyánn,
and it's gonna be a difficulty of 20.
- Okay, now, I think I remember
one of my powers is I can swap for this die if I need to.
- Ooh, is that based on,
do you remember the name of that power?
- No, I'm, kidding, it's not a power.
- Ok, Monét, you are so shady. (Brennan laughing)
- I was so ready, I was so ready to do it.
Let's go ahead, you're going to need a 15 or higher.
- You've got it, sis. - Oh God.
- You can do it. - Nat 20, watch.
- [Jujubee] Troyánn, you can- - [Bob] You got it.
(die clicks)
What, if you say one, I'm gonna just leave.
- What is it? - It's a five. (laughing)
- [Brennan] It's a five. - Oh, okay,
we are gonna get beat, - [Brennan] So,
- We're gonna get trapped or some shit. - [Brennan] All of you turn the corner.
As you run, Troyánn, you,
with a mighty leap, sprint, bam!
Hit this powerful chest of this, (snorts)
snarling demon in front of you.
And on that failed Dexterity save,
you watch the soul
(Monét gasps)
pop out of your bag as you fall backwards- - No!
- And one of the demons, hwah!
Grabs it in his hand. - Aw.
- Hey, what's this?
Where to in such a hurry?
(Brennan sniffs) (tense perilous music)
Hey, wait a minute, and these hulking
sort of like toad reptile demons gather around.
(Brennan sniffs and snorts)
You're not dead.
You're not dead at all.
- Yes, we are.
- Stop, stop lying! (players laughing)
- Stop lying, Twyla! - You are lying.
- What about a, wait, our Wraith Clasps?
- But well, they'll see us change, we have to,
do we have to hide the Wraith Clasps?
- Okay, you have your,
so, you can activate your Wraith Clasps
now if you would like, to try to like disguise yourselves.
- But they're gonna see us, does that matter?
- You know, and Troyánn, you know that it's not,
it's like, you, it's not like illegal
for the living to be here,
but it is suspicious that there are so many.
- Yeah. - Like a white girl
in Compton.
(players laughing)
You can be here, but bitch, what you doing here?
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] You see- - You trying to gentrify this,
the Underworld.
(players laughing)
You trying to gentrify Hollowgraves?
- You see that the Janari looks down, and goes,
(snorts and sniffs) smell blood in your veins.
What gives?
They sort of crowd around you.
With those, with those- - They're gonna get you.
- With those- - There's five them?
- There's five of them. - And I can't do
any more spells?
- You've used your last most powerful spell.
- And it was a one. (tense perilous music)
- You used your last most powerful spell.
So, the issue here is this, right?
You can hear behind you the footsteps of Nyruth,
like, leaving his shop to come to chase you.
So, you have a hard decision to make.
Do you bail out, and run away from these guards
while they have that soul?
Or do you stay and try to like negotiate with them,
and let Nyruth catch up to you?
- Okay, so let's just think about this,
Nyruth is very powerful. - Yes.
- He's not terribly fast, is he fast?
- No, not fast.
- He's not fast, but if he gets here, he is powerful.
So, I feel like our options are, we try to intercept Keke,
and fight her, and take the soul, is she a good fighter?
- We trained together, Keke's just as good as I am.
- She, okay, she's an, okay, she's an incredible fighter.
But there are four of us.
We can either try to fight these guards,
they're huge, they're five, and we are not lucky down here.
- You've also used a lot of your powerful magic already-
- There's three of us- - [Brennan] And you haven't
had a chance to rest. - Yeah.
- [Brennan] It's not been an hour
since your fight against the undead.
- [Bob] We need to rest. - Yeah.
- We need to rest.
I think we have to cut our losses, and just run, I fear.
That's what I think, what do you all think?
- I don't think we can beat these trolls,
we used so much magic. - No.
- I used all the longbows,
all my arc, like, I don't have any anymore power.
- So we gotta just
book it and run?
- We have to run,
we just cut our losses with the soul. - [Bob] And we leave the soul?
- And then where do we go?
Just outside to hang out? - To the inn.
Probably to the inn to rest.
- To the inn, yeah, yeah, and then just hope
to try to find Keke, or intercept her on her way here.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- All right-
- I love that the guards and nice enough
to let us confer with each other
before they start attacking us.
- [Brennan] Yeah. (players laughing)
The, one of them says- - Take a moment.
- Hey, speak up.
And you see another one says, let them have a minute!
Let them have a minute! (players laughing)
- They're very nice.
- We, we're here to police the souls of the dead,
not be rude. (players laughing)
- And since they probably recognize your face,
can you just ask them to let us go?
And we'll, so, we gave back the thing,
you have it, you have the offense.
Can we just go?
- But you do realize also that if you,
if Nyruth gets his thing back,
he'll probably stop chasing you as well.
Is there anything you, are there any powers-
- We don't even have it anymore.
- Yeah, but the guards have it.
- Yeah, we're letting the guards have it,
the guards are gonna give it back to him,
and we're gonna ask- - Or honestly,
let them fight it out. - Yeah,
that's what I'm thinking is gonna happen.
- Yeah. - Yeah,
'cause they want, probably want a soul too, for whatever.
- Are there any powers or abilities
you'd use in this moment, or are you just gonna-
- I, okay, I can. - Okay.
- I can use my Fog Cloud,
I can create a deep bank of concealing fog,
which would help us escape the clutches of these guards.
- Right, we're just gonna run again.
- Yes. - Got it.
- Incredible, what does it look like
as Troyánn casts Fog Cloud?
- I begin to like, I open my gills up,
and I just begin to. (blows)
Like hold, I can hold my breath, but push out,
and just, it's creating vapor from the water condensation
in my body, and making a huge cloud.
(imitates steam rushing through)
The mist billows in all directions from Troyánn.
- Is this magical darkness?
- Yes, you can see in this, absolutely.
- [Bob] Got it, okay. - So, as this happens,
all of you are fine, and you still have the,
that Pass Without Trace.
So, all of you are gonna roll stealth.
Because of Fog Cloud, you're gonna roll with advantage.
- Okay. - So roll twice,
take the better of the two rolls.
- Rolling has not been our friend.
- No, not so far. (dice clicking)
- Oh, I'm rolling two now. - [Brennan] You're rolling two.
- Ooh, 19.
- [Brennan] 19, okay. - Nice.
- So I'm good. - [Brennan] Yes.
- Gerty.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - One time.
(die clicks) - Okay,
so, ooh!
Okay, that's a 19. (Brennan gasps)
Plus 10, 29.
Plus five, 34. - 34,
okay, some truly mammoth rolls here, incredible.
- I have a three, Jesus. - Roll again.
- Record- - [Monét] Gerty...
I'm not doing it on purpose!
(players laughing)
(die clicks)
A 10. - [Brennan] A 10, okay.
- [Monét] Okay, good. - Plus a three.
- [Brennan] Plus another 10, so 23. - That's a 23.
- Okay, and Alaska.
- I rolled a 13 plus a three.
- 16, and then plus 10 from that is 26.
Kerwyn rolls a 28, all of you band together,
the fog erupts, and you flee to the shadows,
and make your way, and can hear in the background
as you rush through the alleyways of Hollowgrave.
Gentlemen, I think you'll find that
the curio you've obtained actually belongs to-
Easy there, easy there, jackal face.
And you see that there's, you can,
you hear like a little scuffle between the guards
and Nyruth back there. - Good.
- Oh.
- Do we see it, or we just hear it?
- You just hear it, I mean,
you can circle back to watch, but you- - We ain't going there.
- We have to go. - Okay, we gotta go,
okay, I'm- curiosity, you got me.
- Yeah. (players laughing)
- I kinda like- - Curiosity killed the witch,
okay? - Well,
that's kinda curious.
- So, the hour draws nigh, like,
you know that you have to go to Shalila,
you're a soul short, which has never happened before.
But it is what it is. (tense orchestral music)
Either you're gonna, like, either you're gonna
leave her waiting for maybe, you know,
Keena to get here, or you're gonna go talk to her.
But either way, you know, the inn is sort of your last hope.
(Monét mmhmms)
- So, part of me thinks that we're at the inn,
we are near water, maybe we can catch her resting
to recharge her amulet near the water.
And we can catch her, maybe?
But we have to rest, we know that we have to rest.
- Yeah, so I think that we
we need to recharge our powers.
I say we get to the inn, everyone get some sleep,
and then we can reconvene in the morning.
- How long has it been since we started this-
- [Monét] There's no time here. - 'Cause it's been like-
- When you were in the mortal world,
you left Greeley in the middle of the night.
So, it's probably been a couple hours of traveling.
So, it's like you've been hiking all night,
have survived two combats, and now it's like past
what would normally be dawn for you.
Obviously the Underworld has no sun or moon.
- Yeah. - But for you,
you've been awake probably for like 24 hours now.
- Werk, so it is nighttime again upstairs, up-
- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
- All right, we need to lay our asses down.
- Yeah, we just go to the inn.
- Walking into the Inn of the Empty Glass,
you see a number of sort of cobwebs
all throughout this space, creaking wooden stairs,
everything, you realize the wood of this place
is all made of coffin wood. (tense synth music)
And you see behind the bar are a number of bottles
with different symbols and glyphs on them.
The symbols seem to register different feelings or emotions.
You remember Nyruth talking about happy memories,
and you wonder if he doesn't take those memories,
and make them into whatever is in these bottles out here
that the dead drink as they wait in this town.
Looking behind the bar is a beautiful woman.
She wears a sort of black leather corset,
her skin is pale white.
She has long black hair that covers one eye.
Sort of those like fingerless black leather gloves.
And you see- - Cher.
(players laughing)
- Cher.
- [Brennan] Cher's here,
Troyánn, you recognize this person. - Hey it's me, Cher.
- She smiles with blood red lips, two fangs extended.
This is D'Hamia, she is the vampire bartender here.
- She makes a really good Margarita.
- I was assuming her Bloody Mary would be-
- Wouldn't it be a Sangria?
(players laughing)
- I was assuming the Bloody Mary
would be kind of your specialty.
That's where she gives you,
you'd think it'd be the Bloody Mary,
she's like, actually, (players laughing)
I make a good Margarita. - Yeah, yeah.
- Exactly. - She's like, it's too hack.
- Don't put me in a corner,
I make a fucking great Margarita.
- It's too hack to make the Bloody Mary. (laughs)
- Getting the Triple Sec down here is a nightmare.
(players laughing)
So, you see that she looks, and says, Troyánn.
- Hey girl!
- I've been expecting you.
She hops over the bar, and gives you a cold embrace,
but as warm as she can make it.
And says, haven't seen you with company before.
Everyone, welcome to the Inn of the Empty Glass.
Can I help you?
Our libations are not truly for the living,
but we do have rooms for.
- D, that's what we need, we need rests.
We have had a very long journey, we need to relax.
- She nods and says, absolutely,
There's a room upstairs for you if you want.
I should tell you, Shalila's out right now,
but she's been waiting here all day.
So do you, if she comes back,
should I tell her that you're here, or?
- No, speak not a word to anyone that I'm here.
And by the way,
can I have the suite?
- The suite?
(sighs) You can have the suite,
but if someone comes and asks for it, I gotta sell it.
- That's fine, that's fine, that's fine-
- Okay, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
- What if someone important asks for it?
We don't run, I don't wanna run into anyone else
until I've have a full night's sleep!
(Brennan laughs)
I'm exhausted.
- She shows you up to this suite, and as she opens it up,
it has cryptic lace, Victorian kind of gothic ambience.
Huge canopy bed with kind of like funereal lace covering.
- What's her name again?
- D'Hamia, it's- - D'Hamia.
- D'Hamia Lovato.
- She sings "Stranger in My House," D'Hamia-
(players laughing) - Tamia.
- Oh, Tamia, no, no, it's a different.
- Demon, there's a demon in my house.
- Dim. (laughs)
- Now, I look at D'Hamia, I know you
don't hear this much here, but I'm living for this place.
(players laughing)
Little, little, little, little living humor.
- She, you see, she smiles, and says,
hey, we, you know, I try to keep a classy establishment.
A lot of the people that come in here are like
dripping from eternal sores and stuff, it's,
I wish I had a better class of clientele,
but them's the breaks, what are you gonna do?
So, suite is yours. (tense piano music)
I won't tell anyone you're here.
I hope you enjoy the place.
We have no food that doesn't turn to ash in your mouth,
but you at least can rest here for a while.
And I'll just say, I'm, and I know Troyánn knows this,
but the room is obviously free.
And if any of you feel like
you don't want all of your blood,
or there's a little bit of your blood
that you could do without, then,
but that's for you to decide,
and I'm not gonna be pushy about it,
but it's just, I don't get a chance to feed very often.
- How about some playing cards?
(players laughing) - Oh God, oh God.
- We'll sleep on it.
- [Brennan] Sleep on it, sleep on it. - Yeah, yeah,
we'll sleep on it. - Thank you.
- You see D'Hamia, D'Hamia goes to the door, and goes like,
and just sort of pauses and says, you know,
some people say it feels really good.
So, something to think about.
- All right, noted. - Ooh.
- Thank you. - I have a question for you.
Okay, my, does the Herbalism Kit,
does this help heal us, or does this this speed up anything?
- Yes, you can speed up the healing process here for sure.
- And is this something I use for all of us,
or is this like a-
- [Brennan] No, you can use it for all of you,
yeah, absolutely.
- Okay, so, I wanna, maybe so we don't have
to sleep as long, 'cause we don't want Keke
showing up in the middle of the night,
and we're just sitting here.
We don't want Shalila to find out where we are,
so I'm just gonna try to Herbalism Kit us
to make sure we can just,
instead of a full eight hours of sleep,
maybe like, I don't know, like get it down to-
- 12 minutes.
- I don't know, what's realistic?
Well, I guess it depends on what I roll, but I mean-
- Yeah, let's make a roll, let's roll about it.
So, gimme a d20 roll, you're gonna add a plus,
I'm gonna say this is proficiency plus your Intelligence,
so this will be a plus seven.
- And I like the CBD, not the THC.
- You ever heard of- (player gasps)
- [Bob] My intelligence is a plus four, then plus seven?
- Plus four, and then your proficiency bonus is plus three,
so we're gonna add the four and the three to make a seven.
- Seven, okay.
I'm trying to get us, see how quickly we can heal.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Come on, 20, nat 20. (die clicking)
- Guys, a three. - What?
- Again? - However,
I will point out that all of you have the ability
to give the help action when you are in like, downtime,
when it's a little bit quieter.
So, if someone wants to help Gertrude,
you'd actually be able to roll with advantage.
- I'll help. - Thank you for help-
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- All right, so go ahead and roll again.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Troyánn over there sitting on her thumbs.
(Monét laughing)
Okay. (die clicks)
- That's all I had to do to help?
- 19! - [Brennan] 19!
- 26, baby. - [Alaska] Hey.
- [Brennan] 26. - Whoo!
- So, Twyla, so I think the way this help works out
is you have some really powerful teas, different herbs,
potions, tinctures, things like that.
But as you begin to unpack your Herbalism Kit,
you actually see that the Underworld,
that wind that's been like drinking at your life,
you're all powerful adventurers,
so you've been able to withstand it.
But like, the herbs and leaves in your kit
have kind of like rotted a little bit.
And I think Twyla's help is like a little bit
of your druidcraft, you can
breathe some life back into those leaves.
- Oh, oh.
(exhales)
(players laughing) - Yeah.
- And all of you have this very powerful tea
that actually does like, fill your stomach,
and make you feel as though you have like,
almost like you feel satiated as if you'd had a meal.
- So, Gertrude's wearing like- - Work.
- Like a boot up to the ankle.
She kicks her shoes off, she goes over to the corner
in the kitchen area, and she starts mixing up these teas,
and she is exhausted. (tense synth music)
She has her hands on the counter, she is breathing heavy,
she's avoiding eye contact 'cause she's embarrassed herself
several times on this journey,
and she's hoping to herself that, I just met these girls,
maybe if I give them this tea, it'll help us speed up,
I can get back in favor,
'cause I don't want them to not like me,
because I really wanna be liked.
- (gasps) Aw.
- So, she's like mixing up her teas.
And then she brings the drinks over, and she goes,
hey, I got some tea for everyone.
Here's a cup, a teacup for you.
- Thank you. (teacup clinks)
- A teacup for you.
I put yours in a bucket. (bucket clinks)
- Heh.
(players laughing)
- And they all sit down and drink their teas.
- You feel restored, and you see Kerwyn kind of sad-
- Hey, where's Kerwyn?
- Yeah, Kerwyn's right here with you, with all of you,
you see- - This whole time?
- This whole time. - But he wasn't fighting.
- He hasn't said shit.
- See, he looks and goes,
(sighs) wow, the tea looks awful good,
but I suppose it wouldn't do a dead soul
any good to have some. (sighs)
Well,
I neither sleep nor rest,
if you want me to watch guard out in the hallway,
or while you're resting, skulk around town
to keep an eye out, I can do that.
- Absolutely, that would be-
- Do you know Shalila?
- Yeah, I know her well.
- If you see her- - [Monét] Let us know.
- Please tell us, and describe your cousin.
- So Keke, she is kinda built like me,
but except her skin is green as I'm blue.
And she has long black hair.
And she's a very fit warrior,
so be careful if you see her.
- Well, I will keep myself (sniffs) ready.
You see, he steps out into the hallway, heads out.
All of you have this time to rest.
The howling winds of the Underworld outside,
enclosed in this suite here at the Inn of the Empty Glass.
But within an hour of resting,
you have the benefit of a full night's sleep.
- Whoo! - That 19.
- Thank God.
There we go.
- Not only do you have like your spells
and abilities back to full,
but also, that damage you took from the river is healed.
- Oh great. (meter whooshing)
- You feel the tea restoring you,
and there's this warm feeling of life, and stability,
and a little bit of being centered here in this space.
After an hour has passed, you hear a knock at the door.
(hand tapping)
It's Kerwyn.
I have come back after exploring.
There are guests downstairs.
I found neither hide nor hair of your cousin,
but Shalila waits with her entourage downstairs. - Shoot.
- She does not know you are here, but she is there.
- How many people are in the entourage?
- Four.
- We cannot fight these people.
- I, you don't have to tell me twice. - We should go out the window up onto the roof,
like a, you know, a,
shh, the sheets out the window, that kinda thing.
- I would- - Oh, can you, (indistinct)
could you pick us up?
- Yeah, but well, I could pick us up,
but couldn't we just do another Pass Without Trace?
- Well, you can't really, remember,
you can't move a lot when you do the Pass,
you have to kinda like hide.
Is that the thing?
And so you can like- - Yeah,
so you have to be trying to hide.
So, you would have to like
sneak out another way potentially.
- Okay.
- Which is possible to do.
Kerwyn speaks at the door, and says,
if you wish to avoid Shalila, I can make a distraction,
and try to get you some space.
But
without a soul to give,
you will probably pay the price in other ways. - Oh, we can't leave,
we gotta, oh wait,
we gotta, we can't, okay.
- What if you just say, hey, I got sick?
(players laughing)
- Yeah, it's just never worked before. - Is Shalila the type to be like,
and don't (stammers) just get me next time?
- Our edge...river?
- Everdeep.
- In Everdeep, my mother has vowed
to give seven souls per season.
Can't show with any less.
- [Bob] You had a whole season- - Her season, or?
- That's 28 souls a year.
(Brennan laughs)
- Great job. Twyla.
- That's a lotta souls, baby. (players laughing)
- [Bob] Like, she really mathing over here.
- Yeah, I was really good in Math.
- I love that.
- So, we cannot, we, I cannot show without less than seven.
- How do we get your cousin to come here?
- Maybe she's not coming.
- Maybe she's dead.
- Well, she, maybe she's already there, we don't know.
We have to go get her, we have to fight her.
The, okay, all right, here's our other option.
We're not going back to fight the jackal,
he whooped our asses, okay?
- We're done with jackal.
- We're done- - Although
we have rested now, we're more powerful again.
- No, we're done with jackal head. - Yeah, we're done with, yeah. (laughing)
So, we have to, we-
- We're not, we're done with the deck of cards.
- I mean. (Alaska laughing)
- We have to go, at this point, we,
our only option is to find your cousin,
and get the soul from her.
We literally have to, there's no other,
what other option do we have?
- Isn't she here?
She's not here? - We don't know where she is,
we haven't seen her.
- Well, let's fucking find her, does anyone have a-
- Do you like do some kinda whale call? (burbling)
- Well, I do have a thing, I do have a thing,
but doesn't she need to be there?
It's the Hunter's Mark.
- Hunter's Mark is a power that lets you deal,
you put it on someone,
and you deal more damage when you strike them.
- Okay, so, okay, so that doesn't matter-
- Yeah. - Right now.
- I don't have anything that can help us do this.
- Kerwyn- - On the plus side,
we are rested, we got that going for us.
- Kerwyn at the door speaks up, and says,
(sighs) there is,
there is a way for you to maybe buy some time, Troyánn.
Shalila- - I'm listening.
- Shalila is the servant of none other than Thanara.
She reports directly to her, the Goddess of Death.
- Mm.
- When the souls are given to her,
she will take them directly to her mistress.
Her mistress, the goddess, will be able
to tell instantly if a soul is worthy or not,
but Shalila may not.
It is possible that you could put a soul
in the amulet for a time.
And if you could somehow beat Shalila to Thanara's castle,
the Tower of Tombs in the center of the Underworld,
you might buy yourself some time to find your cousin,
and find a worthy soul, or something else like that.
It's an option.
- So, you are offering- - Where are we
gonna get a soul from?
- Him.
- He's dead, he has no soul.
- Twyla. (player mmhmms)
(players laughing)
- All right.
(players laughing)
Honestly, I'll disguise myself as a soul.
- Wait, so, here's a question.
If one of us offers our soul, (Brennan mmhmms)
will we become undead in this moment?
- You, your soul will be captured in the gem,
you'll be fully captured in the gem.
- The whole thing, you won't walk,
you're not walking around, undead, you're in there.
- You're, you are fully in there.
- How do I get out then?
- Well, we don't, you don't, don't sacrifice yourself yet.
- Yeah, we don't have a plan yet.
- However, all of the dead wandering the streets
of Hollowgrave are themselves like spirits, they are souls.
So, you could go find someone off the street.
- What about Kerwyn?
- Let's go- - That's what
I'm talking about.
- No, he, no, no, no, he's nice, this is a trap.
Let's go just beat up someone,
let's go find someone who's- - Beat up, yeah, you-
- Who's doing no good. (players laughing)
- The true Gerty showing.
(players laughing)
Let's go kill someone and get their soul.
- No, they're all, first of all, they're already dead.
We gotta find someone who's up to no good, we gotta-
- We shoulda kept Wallace.
- Let's find, if we can get
one of those guards by themselves,
if we can find someone out there,
there's gotta be some bad people down here.
Someone's, someone deserves it.
- I'm sure they're attracted to faes, I can work my magic.
- We gotta get one.
- Kerwyn looks around, and gestures to, like,
a sort of small external staircase,
almost like a fire escape at the back of the inn,
going down to the street, that you could sneak out,
grab somebody to stuff in that amulet,
and try to pass it off to Shalila
to at least buy yourself some time.
- I mean, that sounds like a good option.
- How many- - But is there any,
is there any chance that D'Hamia can offer,
if one of us lets her get a little blood?
I don't even wanna know what happens when you do that.
- Oh, it's a good idea.
- Can she help us with something?
Well, do you think she'll let us?
- If we go get someone to get, oh no,
but we're the only people with blood down here.
- She has the most blood 'cause she's the tallest,
so I volunteer you.
- We could offer her- - Yeah, that's okay.
- Some blood if she will lend us her soul for a moment.
We can't promise she's gonna get it back,
but we're, we can ask.
- This is not fair, she has a business to run,
she is a single, she's- - We're asking,
we're not demanding, we're asking.
- She's a single mom who works three jobs.
(Brennan laughing)
- Let's give it, single, just had in the heart of a fire.
- She loves her kids, and she never stops.
- Kerwyn runs down, and a moment later comes up,
and you see D'Hamia at the doorway saying,
hey, Kerwyn brought me up here.
You know Shalila's downstairs, right?
- We know. (Jujubee gasps)
- [Monét] We know. - Okay.
- D'Hamia, hear us out. - Okay.
- If we let you drink of one of us for blood.
- Oh yeah. - Can you get us a soul?
- What, like a good one? (tense droning music)
- It just has to be- - Eh.
- Good enough for now.
- I got some souls, I got some souls-
- I mean, hopefully they did like
some charity work sometimes, and they, you know.
- I got a, yeah, I can, I'm trying to think of charity work.
Would you consider,
would you consider someone who,
there's a guy I have in a gem downstairs who like,
had a thing in college where he stood on a sidewalk
with a free hugs sign.
- Oh. - Is that-
- We'll take it, that's, but that sounds sweet.
- Okay. - That sounds like
a double major of bullshit and bullshit.
(players laughing)
- I'll go get free hugs guy, does any,
and I really appreciate the blood thing.
Is there, is this something like,
everyone's gonna get in on it, or just?
- Urr. (players laughing)
- Take as much as you want. - Ooh.
- Wait, if we give a little bit of all of ours,
then it's not a big deal, 'cause if it does do some damage,
which it probably will-
- But I can heal her.
- If we all do just a little bit, then it's not as big,
'cause this could hurt her.
So, if we all do just a little, is that a thing?
- Yeah, D'Hamia look and says, no, no, no, no,
ah, look, it's just, you know, you know me,
people like, Princess, like, a woman of your height
and build can probably give a liter completely comfortably.
- A liter? - Her veins
are the size of my neck. - [Bob] You're a happy with a liter?
- You're gonna be fine.
- (sighs) I'd be happy with a drop, a liter is gonna do me.
- A liter, I just met her.
(players laughing)
- She just said you- (Bob claps hands)
- Pop a vein, baby, slap them motherfucking.
- So that, so- (Alaska clapping)
- So, at this point, Gertrude
takes her backpack off, and undoes the buckle,
and straps it around her, (buckle clinking)
straps it around (Brennan laughing)
Princess's arm to get a vein.
- I didn't know that you were a phlebotomist,
Gert-Gertie - Just pop that one,
gets a vein popping, honey.
- You see D'Hamia starts like salivating blood, and is like,
I (smacks lips), I really appreciate this.
She's like, she runs downstairs, comes back up with,
it's like, the other gem saw was like pulsing red.
This one's red, but it's, you just see a guy who's like,
sort of scruffy, he's wearing like a stained sweatshirt,
and a cardboard sign that says free hugs
inside of this little gem.
- This is me every December
when I don't do drag for a month.
(Brennan laughing)
Playing "Fortnite" on my couch.
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] There's just huge Dave Matthews Band energy
kind of emanating from the gem, and-
- Oh.
- Oh, (laughs) you see, she hands the gem over to you,
Troyánn, and you, (gem whooshes)
it enters the amulet, and the amulet glows.
It is filled, even though one
of the souls in it is not worthy.
You see, she goes, thank you so much for this.
I know you got, do you,
is everyone gonna stay in the room?
We're gonna watch, we're gonna not watch?
- Do you want us to be here? - Yeah.
- [Jujubee] I think we should.
- We'll turn our backs, (eerie electronic music)
but we'll give you a little bit of privacy,
but we are, we are here.
- I'm actually watching. - Yeah,
but we're turned on.
I'm just. (Brennan laughs)
- D'Hamia goes- - I'm enjoying this.
- And again, some people tell me this feels good.
(slurps) Ah!
And fangs distend and she (bite crunches)
Bites into your arm, (gulping)
You see bits of blood draining down her chin.
- A liter, don't get greedy!
(Brennan laughs)
- Go ahead and give me a Constitution saving throw.
- Constitution, okay, all right.
(die clicks)
Eight plus seven.
- 15, a great roll.
What does it feel like to Princess as this vampire,
like, wraps her lips around your arm,
and begins to drink the blood out from your arm?
What's going through Princess's mind?
- I think it does feel kinda good, she kinda likes pain.
(Brennan gasps) - Ooh.
- So, it like feels kinda weird and good.
- Yeah, there's this feeling of like,
you can feel your heart rate kind of pick up
as the blood goes through your arms.
D'Hamia. (gasps)
And you can see her body like fills with power,
her eyes kind of shimmer for a second.
(Brennan sighs)
It's been many years.
Thank you.
- And that's royal blood, baby.
(Brennan slurps) - It is sweeter.
- It's very special, and I don't know, you know,
this, if this is a casual thing to you, that's totally fine,
but if you wanna talk later,
I don't wanna put anything on you, but I feel,
I feel very connected to people after.
- It's friends with benefits now.
- I'll see you around.
(players laughing)
- Princess knows how to let them down easy.
- Yeah, yeah, I'll see you around obviously, obviously,
and thank you, and thank you so much for that.
(sighs) Be normal.
And you see, she walks out of the room,
and Kerwyn looks at you, and says,
as your uncle, that was strange for me to be in here for.
(players laughing)
- She is a full woman now, so. - He is a freak..
- I know you're an adult, you have your own life,
but to me, you will always be that little girl.
- [Jujubee] Oh.
- So, your full amulet.
- Finally. - Are you ready
to go down there, and?
- I say let's go talk to Shalila.
- Is she friendly?
- Shalila is not friendly.
- Jesus, is anyone here nice? - How tall is she?
- I'm just worried that she gets upset
by that amulet not being, the last soul being tainted.
- She doesn't know, she just, she's a collector.
- Yes, she knows.
- No, he just said she doesn't know. (laughs)
- Oh, he did? - She, oh yeah,
she won't be able to tell,
but her Mistress will be able to tell.
- Yeah. - Mistress,
that's what I'm talking about, Mistress Shalila.
- But then she has to bring it to her, maybe she-
- She brings it to her, so, the Goddess of Death,
Thanara, will be able to tell,
but Shalila will hopefully be.
- Thanara will be very upset if we, so, maybe we can,
we have been able to buy ourselves some time.
So, in the event that she takes it over,
that Shalila takes it over to her,
and by the time we get there, we're like,
haha, just kidding, sorry, I put the wrong one in there,
I hate when that happens.
(Brennan laughs)
Can I get that one back, and I'll give you this one?
She'll be pretty chill.
But we gotta- - Yeah, yeah.
- We just bought ourselves some time.
- Yeah, we did, okay. - Yeah.
- So I'm gonna head down.
- You head down. (tense ominous music)
In the room down here, you see there are several
suits of armor that within their visors,
you see there are no bodies within them.
But instead a pale, ghostly mist,
and two points of white light,
the spirits of these dead knights animate their old armor
that just stands flanking a woman
that sits at the sort of main table in the common room.
She has a black velvet gown with silver brocade,
a long cloak that looks to be made of almost oil,
a sheen of black fabric that flows like liquid.
Her dark skin, and her midnight black lips,
and two pure black eyes like sharks' that,
foo, shimmer with white light as she blinks.
You see long decorated silver braids cascades around her.
And you see that she has sort of a almost
"Phantom of the Opera" style, a partial mask-
- Ooh. - That covers a half
of her face, and you can see peeking out
from under the edge of the mask, a hint of death and rot.
Troyánn, I have been waiting here for some time,
you are later than usual, and you come bearing
strange company.
(tense eerie music)
- We're in training.
- Gimme a deception check.
- Goddammit- - Ooh, damn.
- Why did I say anything, why did I say anything?
(Brennan laughing)
We're in training, and I just rolled a nine plus a what?
Deception, is deception in here?
- Deception, I think it's plus five.
- Deception, plus five, so I'm at a 14.
- You see, she says, you're all training
to be merfolk assassins?
Incredible, well, I don't know
what's going on up in the world of the living,
and I don't care to know.
But you are very late, do you have your souls?
- My sincerest apologies.
Yes, I do.
I look, reach down, untie the satchel, and hand it over.
- She takes it.
Hmm.
Seven souls.
Very well done.
Drops it in a bag.
So, I suppose you are all learning
to make this trek yourselves.
If you are working on Troyánn's behalf,
you will know me as Shalila of the Half Mask.
I am a servant of these realms,
and tend to the collection of these souls.
How very odd to see you all here.
What of your journey now?
I presume you will return to the realms above.
- I'm afraid to speak.
(players laughing)
(Brennan claps hands)
- Am I speaking for us all?
- I ain't got nothing to say.
- Talk for us, you're gonna- - 'Cause I got nothing to say.
- She's your friend, she's your friend, your colleague!
- Because you know her.
- Yeah, so, we, they came to get,
to help me to show them what it is to be
an expert assassin, and get all those souls.
And now we're just gonna head back home,
and have a, we have a game night we're planning for.
Playing a new game in Valhalla.
- Kelvorda. - Kelvorda.
(players laughing) - Valhalla.
- Yeah, called "Dungeons and Dragons,"
we're gonna go play that tonight.
- Oh.
How many people can play?
- Four.
- Oh. - Hundred.
- 400. (players laughing)
- Stop, stop, you're good- - And she,
Shalila says, oh, because I love board games.
- Aw. (Monét laughing)
- Look, we- - Twyla.
- Something, she could bring her whole army!
- (laughing) 400. - That's fine.
(players laughing)
- [Bob] Jesus!
- I have 395 close friends.
(players laughing)
- All you gotta do is disguise yourself as the game,
and then we are gonna be left to fight by ourselves.
(Bob laughing)
- That's so fun, so, how do you play?
Is it sort of like a collaborative thing?
Are you all like playing against the game, or?
- We got, we actually, we have to rush back.
As you know, her mother is a real-
- Yeah. - Is a real harpy.
- Oh, yes, for sure, well, of course,
anyone who had made a deal to live forever would be.
- [Bob] Oh, this is- (indistinct)
- What? (tense rhythmic music)
- Of what do you speak my mother?
- I'm going to need everyone here to make an insight check.
(dice clicking)
- I have a nine.
- 14. - 14.
- You got lucky hands, bitch. - I have a 16.
(Bob gasps) - 16.
- Nine. - We both have nines.
- Yeah.
- So, as you say, what do you mean?
You see, she looks at you,
and you immediately see a look of concern on her face.
She looks at you.
Surely I do not say anything
that you are not already aware of.
- I do not know of this deal
of my mother that you speak.
- Who do you make such a deal with?
- With my mistress, the Goddess Thanara.
(Jujubee gasps)
28 souls a year.
- These, so, you're doing this just to keep your mom alive.
- No, nope, nope, nope- - You've been doing
all of this work to keep your mother alive,
did you know this?
- We have been doing all this for to keep-
- We are, I just started this week, I'm a trainee.
Do you know about this?
- I had, did not know of this.
- You didn't?
- No.
- So, you thought you were just
going out collecting 28 souls a year.
- Your mother told you this was to save Everdeep.
- Everdeep.
- Your mama's a liar.
- It's just to save her.
- Uh-huh.
What a self-centered person.
- Well, I don't wanna start throwing,
and she's still her mother, I don't wanna-
(Brennan laughing)
Let's be respectful.
- Don't talk about my mother like that.
- Baby.
- Can you disguise yourself as a person
who thinks before they speak?
(players laughing)
- I'm disguising myself as an expert
on self-centered people.
She sounds like an alcoholic.
(players laughing) (Brennan clapping hands)
- Well, and we can all agree,
there are some character flaws with Troyánn's mom.
We can agree there's a few character, I'm not trying-
- She's a liar! - I'm not trying
to take her inventory or anything.
- We would all allow this. (laughs)
I'll take her inventory for her.
(players laughing)
- You see that Shalila looks at you, and says,
I would've thought, (tense droning music)
I'm sorry if this is news to you.
Perhaps I am betraying some secret
that I swore to my goddess,
but she never mentioned to me to keep it secret.
I thought you would've known,
given what happened to your father.
- What happened to my father?
- Didn't you just see him recently in a?
- You remember seeing him in the river,
and saying they lied to you.
And you see, she says,
well, who do you think had this job before you?
And who do you think
(Jujubee gasps)
paid the price when he discovered?
(players whispering indistinct)
- Wait, did her father have the job before her?
- I think so.
- And then because he didn't do it,
well, they killed him.
- Yes.
- Because he was short probably one time.
- He probably had 27 souls one year.
- Wait.
So, we think that maybe your dad used to do this-
- Would make sense.
- Because he was short one time, this happened to him.
- But he said they lied to you.
- And also my father could not swim.
- Who's they? (tense string music)
- He can't swim at all?
- He was an out- - Your mom can't walk,
so where'd they meet?
- On the sand.
(players laughing)
- At the shore.
- They met at the beach. - Got it.
- He was fishing.
- Got it, got it, got it.
- Oh my gosh.
- So, my father was killed
for not having enough souls for you and the mistress.
- I believe it was a little more complicated than that.
- Wait, don't I have a, like, a mind reading spell,
or some shit? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Can I get in this lady's head?
'Cause she's being very cagey.
- She is being very cagey.
You, if you wanna cast Detect Thoughts,
you cast this spell. (magic whooshes)
You see Shalila, she is caught off guard in this moment,
'cause she feels like she's maybe spilled the beans
on something that she wasn't supposed to know,
or wasn't supposed to tell you,
or assumed that you knew.
You see, in Shalila's head, this idea
that the deal was obvious to the entire family of Everdeep.
And that when her father had failed, that like,
his death was understood to be a failure.
However, you gain extra information, not from Shalila,
but from these deathly knights that surround her,
that are so ancient that they actually
witnessed what happened.
A memory that all of them are reliving in this moment.
And you see Troyánn's father, Roy of Karkyn,
an ancient forest, an elven archer.
And you see the memory that they have in this moment
is of Roy standing on a platform,
floating in empty void, looking up.
And you see for the first time in their memory,
a face of her. (tense ominous music)
She is 18 feet tall, a giant.
With long horns, gray-purple skin,
in gleaming bronze attire,
a beautiful Goddess of Death, with long wings
as of a bat or dragon spread from her back.
She gazes down imperiously.
You see the sorrowful eyes
of this beautiful elven man looking up.
(tense dramatic music)
I'm sorry, mistress of the Underworld.
I did not know.
I thought,
I thought only that I was saving Everdeep,
these people,
I did not know the deal that
the Queen of Everdeep had struck.
And now I feel I have doomed all these souls
to your pit for a cause I no longer
can say is true or just.
And you see that the goddess Thanara looks and says,
what then would you do,
knowing what your actions have caused?
I would ask, mistress, that you let them free.
And what would you pay to right the wrongs I've done?
Everything.
She says, a worthy price.
She points a finger, and you see, he says,
but wait, before I go, can you tell my daughter-
And (whoosh) a spell
Roy, (gasps) dies, having given his soul
to free the souls that he had brought
here over long years of service.
You see that memory, Gertrude,
and in this memory that you see,
even though you are reading the minds of these knights,
the magic shifts somehow.
In this memory, you see the Goddess of Death (gulps)
swallow that soul, Troyánn's father.
(tense dramatic music)
And then even in a memory that you are reading with a spell,
she goes,
(magic whooshing)
Looking for me, Gertrude?
- So then, (Alaska gasping)
Gertrude immediately bolts out of there.
And she, she's like trying to get outta this memory,
and she grabs the hands of the girls,
she goes, we have to leave right now.
(tense orchestral music)
And then we storm out the door, can we do that?
- [Brennan] You can run right out the door, so-
- To where, where we going?
- Shalila goes, thanks for doing business,
I'll try to be at board game night if I can!
(Brennan laughs)
- Where we going, Gerty?
- Okay, we're out, we, I just wanna get away
from Shalila for a second.
I don't know, okay, she-
- What did you see?
Tell us. (tense piano music)
- Shit, okay, I don't know, and I'm thinking to myself.
I'm thinking this in my head,
you all can't hear this thought,
'cause I'm thinking to myself, like,
if I tell her this, Troyánn this,
how much will this upset her?
Will this make her, she already doesn't like her mom anyway,
and she thinks that her dad was killed,
but she doesn't know that he nobly gave his own life
to return all the souls.
Should I tell her?
- Yes.
- Or should I just be like,
eh, it's nothing, and just keep going?
- You tell her.
- But you don't, you can't hear me thinking to myself.
(Bob laughs)
- Well, I can hear you.
- Oh yeah, Juju being here, you get-
- I'm Jujubee, I can hear-
- Yeah, (Alaska laughing)
you think I should tell her?
- I think you should tell- - Would you?
- I think is it, wouldn't you wanna know?
- Well, it depends on what it is though, what I-
- Well, I mean. - Yeah.
- She just found out her whole life's a lie.
- Well, I mean, but-
- She's in a dirty business.
- I think it's better to just hit her
with all the wounds today (Brennan laughs)
than to wait-
- Okay. - And let her know later,
right? - Okay.
- Good idea, Jujubee, now.
- I'd be a great parent.
(Bob laughs)
- [Bob] Troyánn.
- Yeah, what'd you see?
- One of the guards was there (tense eerie music)
the night that your father lost his soul.
He wasn't killed in battle.
He gave his soul.
- For what?
- He gave his soul to restore the lives,
and the souls of all the people that he had killed
after years and years collecting over a hundred souls.
So, he gave his life to the, he gave his life to-
- Thanara? - Thanara.
- Thanara, he gave his life to her.
And he was trying to send a message to you.
He wanted to say something to you, but before he could,
she didn't care to hear it, she just sucked it up.
And then she ate his soul.
And then I swear to God, she looked at me,
like, I know, she looked at me.
So, I think that she knows how I look now,
hey, which is very unnerving.
But she is ruthless. - Was she intercepting
your thought of the memory that she was seeing?
- She was just, it's like, it's,
I normally, I'm just like in the area,
but it was like I was there, I was a person in the room,
she looked straight at me.
- Hmm. - And it did,
she didn't look happy.
She didn't, it was not, it wasn't like, 'hey girl.'
(Brennan laughs)
It was nefarious, this look.
- I can't believe this.
So, is my mother a liar?
- She lied.
And your dad found out.
- He fuck around and he found out.
- He fucked out and he found out, honey.
- Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
- And I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this.
- It's better you than Twyla.
(players laughing) - Well I didn't know this stuff.
I would've at least texted it to you, girl.
- And Twyla, Twyla woulda been like,
your daddy dead to keep your mom alive.
(players laughing)
- Your mama's a liar.
- Liar, alcoholic, daddy's dead as hell.
- Baby.
(players laughing)
- All of you stand sort of here on the street,
having divulged this.
You see Shalila, and those death knights,
those of sort of armored knights.
She has her souls, she's heading off
deeper into the Underworld.
You see Kerwyn standing out here with you, saying,
well, your business is done, Troyánn,
but as we all well know, (tense eerie music)
your true business brought you here for other reasons.
Reasons I'm not quite sure of myself.
But
if there are boons you wish from
her, Mistress of Death,
Shalila is the one headed after her.
- So, do we go back and confront your mom?
That could take a very long time.
Also, I have a feeling if we go back, and confront your mom,
and then T'Alia, D'Alia finds out that
she doesn't have the soul, we're fighting your mom,
we're fighting all the merfolk,
and we're fighting her at the same time, this is a lot.
We probably should just keep journeying on.
- I think keep journeying on.
- What do you guys think?
- We have to like confront Thanara, don't we?
- And that- - I feel like that
is what we have to do.
- 'Cause you have business with her.
- Yes, I do.
- And kind of, so do all of us.
- As you look out at Shalila traveling there,
you see in the direction that she is traveling,
Twyla and Princess, both of you look out there,
and see far off in the mountains,
(thunder cracking)
A flash of red lightning.
Crimson storm clouds gather.
Twyla, you've seen these once before.
And Princess,
you seem to recall that red glow in the sky
over the fire that took your family's home.
You- - This is Zaria.
- Both of you stop for a moment,
and you look around through Hollowgrave
in all these places here.
As Shalila travels out across the wasteland,
you see that the expanse, far from being untouched,
is filled with thousands of footprints.
(ominous tense music)
And you suddenly realize the armies of Zaria Hex
have passed through this way, headed-
- Had a lot of them.
- Headed to the Tower of Tombs,
the home of the Goddess of Death.
- So, we're gonna get there, the,
she's there, her army's there.
- Her army, Zaria.
- Shalila's there, she's not nice.
- I have a sneaking suspicion that
my mother will have something to do with this.
- You think she's there?
Maybe she's in a wagon.
- She's dug a trench.
- Yeah, maybe.
- Kerwyn looks at the rest of you, and says,
for better or worse,
all roads seem to lead to the Tower of Tombs,
and the mistress of the Underworld.
- We're rested, let's head off to the tower.
- Yeah, let's go.
- We got to.
- He sort of shoulders his sword,
puts an arm around his niece,
and you see it standing in the doorway,
D'Hamia smiles and says,
best of luck on your journey.
I'll keep an eye out for that cousin of yours
if she shows up.
And
it was really lovely to meet you, and I did feel,
I felt a strong connection, I don't know if you did or not.
- We gotta go.
(players laughing)
- Right.
No, of course, obviously.
And I didn't, and when I said strong connection,
I didn't wanna make anyone uncomfortable.
So, great, thank you for, thank you for your business.
- Bye D'Hamia, blood to see you.
- Oh, blood to see you, (laughs) that's fun.
- Yeah.
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] She walks in.
- It feels like if you flirt with this vampire,
we might have a extra person to
help us with- - The vampire come up with us?
- She wants to run the hotel.
- She, girl, dead people don't need to sleep.
(players laughing)
The hotel literally is only here for the alive people.
- We'll keep going forward- - And there's only four
that come down once in a while.
- We're gonna pimp out our orc friend.
- Yeah. (Brennan laughing)
- Why not?
- And the four of you head off on the trail of Shalila,
and her four death knight guardians.
As red clouds gather overhead,
crimson lightning strikes,
as in the distance, (thunder rumbles)
you see it. - Hmm.
- Raised aloft, the Tower of Tombs.
And that's all for this episode of "Dimension 20!"
Tune in next week as we venture
to the lair of the Goddess of Death!
- Wow. - I'm scared.
- I am too. - Me too!
(tense ominous music)
- The Underworld has always been a dismal place,
but of late, it has grown darker still.
- And now we just have to continue the journey.
- Strange appetites of the Goddess Thanara.
- Y'all don't really think Thanara
would leave the throne just to go for a walk?
- No. - I don't know her, I think-
- No. (tense dramatic music)
- Maybe she's been locked up for seven days,
she's getting over a cold,
and she's get 30 minutes a day to walk around.
- [Bob] There's a small chance we could ask.
(players laughing)
- It's true that you no longer care
to uphold the deal your mother struck,
but you do know that the goddess of the Underworld
is expecting seven souls.
- Why don't we beat up Shalila,
and take her like metal guys, and use them?
- Wait, why are we- - Or befriend her?
I don't know. - Why do we wanna?
- The jackal guy.
- Mm. - Oh,
I would love to revisit him. (player laughing)
- I do, I would too.
- Welcome to Nyruth's-, unreal.
- Before you do, don't, but-
- So hey.
(Brennan laughing)
- What could await you in the Tower of Tombs?
One Seed of the All Blossom yet lives!
- We know. (tense adventurous music)
- You know? - Wait,
I'm like, wait, what, what?
- Yeah, that's a little fishy.
- Yeah, like, what is she doing here?
This is crazy.
- I think we're all gonna die. - Maybe we have-
- Bingo.
- Oh- - What?
- What do we have to fight?
- Girl, you okay?
- I'm scared!
- [Monét] Oh my God!
- Wait, wait, wait, wait!
- Ah!
- Wait, wait, wait!
- Whoa! - Enough!
- Ah! - Jesus!
- Oh great!
- We're in a world of trouble.
- [Brennan] The time has come!
(Jujubee gasps) (tense suspenseful music)
And you literally-
- That's very triggering to "Drag Race" girls,
"the time has come" is a very- - I know.
- And I did not stretch today.
(ominous whoosh)
(house music)