(tense yet whimsical music) (stoats squeaking)
(tense music continues)
- Yeah, you guys want to play some fucking D&D? (whimsical music)
- Let's play some fucking D&D! (all hooting and hollering)
- Hello and welcome to Dimension 20: Burrow's End.
I'm your dungeon master and warren warden, Aabria Iyengar,
and with me are my...
(whimsical music cuts out) Oh no. So here's the thing.
I didn't come up with a new one.
- It's all right, inspiration's going to strike right now
and you're going to think of the best pun yet in...
- [Players] Five, four, three, two, one...
- And with me are my vicious varmints.
Say hi, vicious varmints! (the cast cheers wildly)
- Yes! Do you believe in miracles?
- [Players] Hello, vicious varmints!
- [Erika] Have a candy. - Hi, we're doing it.
Oh shit! I did it.
I'm going to do, yeah, this is going to be the most-
- That was gorgeous. - [Aabria] Amazing. We did it!
- This is an athlete. When the pressure's on,
when the clock is ticking, okay?
- This is Scuppers all over again.
- Scuppers! - No net.
- So in lieu of a traditional recap to see what we've done,
we're going to go back, and I just want to share with you
one more time the bit of the lore drop that you got last-
- Yes, because we were all very much focused on the suits.
- Oh yeah, do you want me to do a whole narration
just like (mumbling)?
- (mumbling) In the beginning of time.
- Before the beginning, there was darkness.
We found the Light ourselves and began the world.
So many things were illuminated.
Opportunity, reason,
technology, power.
But light also begets shadow,
and from those dark corners, monsters grew.
They stalk, ever expanding, towards us,
towards what we have rightfully claimed,
towards what we have built, towards what we seek to protect.
Each other, the Light itself.
If they breach our walls, they will snuff out our Light,
because it is in darkness that they thrive.
The shadows approach.
We see it in the crushed clover.
We feel it in the tremble of the earth itself.
We feel it in the thunder on a cloudless day.
This is the Last Bastion of the Light,
and we are its defenders.
So we will work together tirelessly to prepare ourselves
so that when the time comes, we stoats will banish
the darkness and its monsters forever.
(Jasper sighs in admiration)
- She's so good, my god.
(Rashawn snapping appreciatively)
- And we come back exactly where we left off.
You have been fed and welcomed into Last Bast,
the Last Bastion of the Light.
There are people, stoats, creatures, friends?
Everywhere.
And you have an important ally,
Bennett, here at your disposal.
Looking over at him, you would see that now
that he's sort of given you the deal
and offered you sanctuary and food,
that he's kind of looking around at where he should be next,
so what do you all want to do?
- You know, whenever I go to a new person's house,
I would love a tour.
See all the different rooms and whatnot.
Would you accommodate that sort of thing, a tour?
Do you know what a tour is?
- I do, in fact, know what a tour is.
If it's okay with you, I would happily introduce you
to a friend of mine that could facilitate that.
I do have some work to get back to.
- Oh, stay just a little bit longer with us.
I'm sure whatever you have to do can wait.
- Okay, it's very...
You... were...
Elk...
Make a persuasion check, and I'll give you advantage.
- Can I give my mother disadvantage?
- Yes.
- Oh, double thirteens. That's still nine, that's a nine.
- It goes down by so much! - [Jasper] Wow, yeah.
- I blink, and one of my eyes gets a little stuck.
- The milky eye.
Oh, do you require medical...
Can you help your- - She's fine.
- [Aabria] Okay. - She's fine.
That's going to just do that.
- [Aabria] Feels back to walk away from that.
- Grandma, why is your eye twitching?
- It just does that sometimes, dear.
- Ms. Tula, I...
There are people that are much better at facilitating this
that could maybe explain to you all the deal here,
but now that the hunt is done, I do have to make my reports.
- Of course, we're more than capable of finding our own way.
We'll get someone to show us.
Thank you so much for your time.
- Okay, thank you. - [Jasper] Thank you.
- Thank you. Good luck with your eye.
Okay, I'm going to go.
And he truly just backs out of the hole.
- Don't be a stranger! - I couldn't imagine that.
And leaves through the hole, through the sort of rabbit pen.
- Look over. How's your eye, Mama?
- Oh, it's fine.
- Is it fixed on somebody?
- Well...
What? I don't take your meaning.
- I think that maybe you have an attraction
or feel partial to this person.
- He's very young. He could take care of you.
- He's already strong, yeah. He's a leader.
- There you go. - On his hind legs.
- Oh, I'm too old to invest any more of my precious time
on anything but my immediate family.
But on the other hand,
I'm sure that you two would enjoy having another dad, yes?
- What's wrong with your eye? Can I help?
- Mama, do you need me to heal you?
Cause something is wrong with your eye.
- There's nothing wrong with my eye!
- Okay, I'm going to Lay on Hands.
- It might have been the elk.
It might have caught her, maybe.
- You are partially injured, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- I will heal you. How many points did you take?
- It was 17, but I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine!
Stop fussing over me! - No, Mama.
We're gonna split the bill. We're gonna split the bill.
- Oh, you don't know what "read" is,
but you've got "split the bill" down.
- I'll do nine, you do eight? You want to do that?
- Okay, we're also all speaking English.
You know, it comes from history.
- I believe we are speaking Bulgarian.
- We're all speaking Stoat!
- Hey, what I need so much is please take inspiration.
Help me!
- As Bennett leaves, I'm going to look around
for someone that does look,
if Bennett is sort of like a captain,
that looks a little bit more like an administrator
or someone that can give us more of a...
Honestly, I'd probably be looking for a den mom.
I'd look for someone that seems to be caring for people.
- Yeah, who's the alpha mama around here?
- Sweet, go ahead and give me perception or insight,
whichever you prefer.
- Would it be possible as well,
whilst they're looking for this, if we start
to make our way, looking for people using the Blue?
Whether it seems to be a very common thing,
as in all of the stoats here seem to have
the use of the Blue, or if it's just particular ones,
just getting the lay of whether it's like
this is special that we all have access to it,
or whether it's the case that everyone has access to this.
- I actually see Thorn looking for that,
and I realize that my kids have just eaten
and there's a small chance they'll get sleepy,
but more likely they'll get the zoomies.
- That's after pooping and everyone knows it.
- It could really happen at any time.
- So I'm going to look at Thorn being curious
and know that me and my sister
have kind of a boring grownup task of,
show us the ropes, show us where things are.
Who do we have to give what kind of respect to?
All that kind of stuff
that the kids will be probably not into.
I'll just look at Thorn and go, Thorn,
if you're interested in some of the incredible things
we've seen that map to what you were saying,
would you want to take Lila and Jaysohn and see if there's,
you know, I know that they'd be interested.
- He's going to be with the children on his own!
He can't do it. He can't.
- I would love to do that,
if you're willing to go on a little trip.
I want to go and investigate the Blue
and see if everyone can do this
or if everyone has access to it.
- You want me to do that?
- Well, you're welcome to stay with me
if you'd like, sweetie, but Auntie Vi and I
have to go make sure that we have everything settled up.
We have to go make sure that we know
where we're going to be sleeping
and where food's going to be
and what's expected of us in this new place,
and I think that that will be just, you know,
without getting into any trouble and without running around,
it seems like there's food here and there's other stoats
and it would be a time for you to learn
and maybe talk to some other kids your own age
that I know you've been waiting to do for a long time.
- I'm going to go see if other kids jump off stuff too.
- They're not going to be as good at it as I am.
- Oh, obviously. You'll have to show them.
You can show them how to do it.
- Jaysohn's gone.
- While they have that, I'm going to lean into Lila and say,
I'd love you to keep an eye on your brother.
- I'd do anything for you.
- Okay, sweetie. Then just do that.
It'll be okay. I love you.
(ding)
(Ding) Wink!
- Well-fed Lila is wild.
- I give you a kiss on the forehead and I say-
- You're my best friend. - Well...
I know what you mean, and I'm very lucky to be your mom.
- This is crazy.
- It's really crazy, so just try to make sure
that Jaysohn doesn't get into too much trouble.
Listen to your Uncle Thorn, and yeah,
if you can read and you can find things out here,
you know, it's a very exciting new place
and it doesn't seem that scary in some ways,
but there's a lot for us to learn.
It's all very strange. So,
You're really bright and you're getting older,
and that means that I can rely on you more,
and I trust your judgment.
I know that you're going to figure things out
if you need to.
- The psychic damage I'm taking right now.
- Side thing, speaking to Thorn a sec,
I'm like, I know we haven't had a chance
to really sit down and regroup,
but there's a lot of people here,
and it'd be very interesting to learn how they function
and what doesn't work for them and how we might improve it.
- Accommodate them.
- Yes, they've been isolated for a long time.
It'd be nice to introduce a new flavor.
- [Jasper] Freshen things up a little. - [Rashawn] Yes!
- I'll see what we can do. - Yes!
- You guys are freaky. - [Aabria] All right.
- So I got the judgmental grunt?
- I didn't even know that you were here.
- Always here. - Grandma's always watching.
- Somehow, Ava's going to be in both of these scenes.
- Grandma, do you want to come with Vi and I
just to see if there's any way we can-
- I think you could do with some supervision, yes.
- Get the old trio back together.
- There you go. - That's right.
When we were younger,
I used to take you on all of our little burrow tours.
- Burrow tours? Did that happen?
- I don't think that's something we ever-
- I don't think that's something we ever did.
This is some rewriting history.
- That's right!
- Taking our cousin or something with them.
- Everyone would always look at you two and say,
ah, I can tell that those two are Kenny's.
- Yeah, yeah. Oh no, that's good.
She's telling a story about how
she was constantly taking us on fun trips.
- Is this what she's telling your children,
that she did all these things
that she's going to do with them?
- Let me be clear, there's three Grandmas.
There's Grandma, the woman that we actually grew up with,
the Grandma that my children experience,
and then the Grandma that Grandma is inventing
verbally in front of us.
- So there could potentially be a fourth grandmother.
- This woman could be anybody.
- Come with us, Mama. - Come on, Mama. Love you.
- Blueberries every day.
- Was Mama drinking berry wine our whole childhood?
- As I look around for berries with you, I suddenly go back.
Oh, there were berries everywhere when we were growing up.
- Berry skins just scattered.
- Yeah, we found that part of the tunnel
that we hadn't been in that was covered in berry skins.
- This woman is fermented.
- I remember the time that we had strawberries in the house
and we got them and ate them, and we got yelled at so hard.
It didn't even make any sense.
It was like, I was saving those for later!
- Mommy needs her medicine!
- We've discovered Grandma's alcoholism.
- It runs in the family.
You're going to have to look out, Lila.
- I'm extremely functional!
- And the more you yell it, the more I believe it.
- Highly functioning berry drinker.
- So as Thorn exits with Jaysohn and Lila,
let me get that perception or insight check.
- 12, it was. - 16.
- Ava, why don't you go ahead and just give me
a perception or insight check as you see
your daughters sort of still up on this catwalk
a level above the main general population?
- Oh yeah, okay, that's a 16.
- Oh, nice.
I think you all sort of spot the same flow,
that soft eyes, how do you watch groups of people
that are so many that they sort of form
mathematical patterns, and you see
that there are little points of stoppage
where people will kind of surge,
come up to someone, and then move away from them.
Just about everyone here is moving towards something
or doing something, actively involved in something
or on their way to do something, and the break in that
that you all, with your 16s, clock,
is that there are just a couple stoats on the ground
that people walk up to and have discussions with,
and you see two or three of them on the floor
and they all have a single thing in common,
which is a bit of something glinting like metal
wrapped around the sash that they're wearing.
You kind of get that idea of, oh,
this is how you spot someone in this crowd
that seems to be there for asking something.
- They can't all know each other.
There's too many. That's what the things are.
That's what the thing on them are.
It's not like a burrow, they have to wear things
to know who's in the burrow and who's not.
- So should we blend in, or?
- I don't think we can without the little sashes.
- Oh, so we go and ask for some of the sashes, yes.
- Yeah, I think we go and ask how you join, yeah.
- You know what, I just love that sash you've got on.
- So you just immediately go down and scamper over?
Yeah, it's going to take you a minute to suddenly duck down,
run down, and move through the flow of people.
- Pardon, pardon, pardon. - [Aabria] Sure, sure, okay.
- Oh, hi. You just look fabulous, you do.
And I was just wondering, where could I get
one of those sashes that just seem so...
What's your name?
- Hi, hi, my name is Talia.
I'm here with sort of Population Support.
You appear to be new?
- Yes.
- That's correct, and we need (unsure) "sah-shays"?
- Sashes.
- We met one of your burrow, Bennett,
and also Sybil on the outside.
- Oh.
Oh, okay.
- And they said this happens somewhat frequently,
and we should come inside.
We would just love a tour, and we would love to know
where we are best kept, where's the best place
for us to stay, and how we can be helpful.
- Oh, absolutely.
Okay, hold here for a second.
And you see now everyone,
unless they are sprinting somewhere, is standing bipedal,
and you see this one stoat, they crane a little higher
and make eye contact with someone.
This person ducks down and scampers away.
Hi, welcome to Last Bast.
I don't know how much you've been told,
if Bennett informed you or just sort of sent you in here.
Welcome, we have room for everyone.
How many are in your group, just the three of you?
- A party of eight. - Okay, eight. Delightful.
So there are sort of five main facets here.
We've got Resource Allocation, which is actually where,
your point person for that would be Bennett,
so I don't think I have to necessarily describe him for you
if you end up getting involved with that.
There's also Refit,
which is sort of the maintenance of Last Bastion itself.
You see them gesture at the wall,
and there are, amongst the stoats
that are sort of running up and down scaffolding,
they're also bringing in bits of metal and bits of wood.
This whole place is scaled wildly and deeply inconvenient
for creatures as small as yourselves to get around,
so there's just these sort of ad hoc add-ons
being put up places and things being maintained.
You even kind of hear and look up,
that the yellow glow of these lamps
that are filling this entire space with unnatural light
occasionally flicker, and then you see a little stoat
scurry across and the lamp start swinging
as someone starts working on it.
That's Refit, there's also weap-technology,
Defense, and Population Support.
Anyone like me that you see
with this little bit of copper on their sash
will be Population Support and can help however we could.
We know that there are a lot of stoats here,
and the flow can be a bit hard to get used to,
but I've sent a friend to go and get you sashes
and figure out where best we can house all eight of you.
- Now, do you have a place that has dandelions?
Because my Viola really favors
having dandelions in a burrow.
- For decoration or food?
- Oh, for decoration, and then food later on.
- Mm-hm, understood.
I will absolutely go check our current stores.
If not, you can put in a request with Resource Allocation,
or if you are feeling adventurous
and cool and calm and confident, go look for it yourself.
We want to make sure everyone's empowered,
once you understand how to be safe within the woods,
to take care of themselves as best they need.
- We can come and go as we want?
- Oh yes, of course.
- Well, I don't think we should ask for any dandelions.
We haven't...
So far all we've done is eat. We want to make sure that-
- You've got to get a lot of extra moss
for when you get the toots.
- The toots?
- Just swap it right out for the new ones.
You know, no fuss, no muss. - I'm sure Talia-
- I'm sorry, are you or any of your party suffering
from any sort of maladies on the way in?
- No one has the toots. I'm fine, thank you.
- Make a persuasion or deception check.
I got a natural 20.
- On insight? - [Aabria] Yeah.
- Just take a deep inhale through the nose.
Okay, I got a three plus-
- Talia truly does not understand what the toots is,
and is just scanning for, oh,
you might have brought a horrible pathogen in.
- [Rashawn] No! And you just see the like,
- I don't have the toots!
- I am so sorry, what's the toots?
- Hey, Mama? It's fine, no one has the toots.
- My sister doesn't have gas.
- Gas? Oh, got it.
Is that what toots are?
- Toots are farts, and that's what Mama said.
That's not the point, sorry, I don't know
why we even started talking- - No one has the toots.
- [Brennan] What we should start talking about-
- I'm just trying to make sure that you kids
are comfortable where we're settled in.
- Well, let's ask any other question first.
- Let's be very clear.
With the current inflow, as stoats arrive,
more and more every day, so just know you'll have plenty
of new neighbors as you go, and we hope you extend
the same courtesy to them as we have to you,
that we are vigilant for any sort of biological agents
that could disturb our home.
- All of us are healthy.
My sister and I actually have the gift
to be able to heal sick stoats,
so if you have any stoats here that are sick-
- Do you have the toots?
- Yeah, and in case, should my mother
or any other venerable, wonderful stoats
of this community get the toots
or any other malady, I would be more than happy-
- Jaysohn loves eating pill bugs.
- Mama, Mama, Mama please, Mama.
- Just a point of clarification,
when you speak to your abilities around healing,
is that sort of a naturopathy,
using herbs and dirt, or the Light?
- The latter, yes. The Light.
- Oh, that's wonderful.
- And I won't lie, many of the words you've said,
I have not understood during our conversation.
- Oh, I'm so sorry. - That's all right.
- Do you want me to walk back anything for you?
- Pathogen. - Pathogen.
- Pathogen, things in the world
that would make a singular stoat sick
that would sort of be spread amongst the group
and cause widespread death.
- Oh, we've got none of that.
- No, we routinely check our family. We're very healthy.
Again, we've been very fortunate
in terms of the gifts that myself and my sister have.
There were many problems at our old warren,
but disease was not one of them.
- Okay. - Very clean, these two.
- The point being, we would love
just to know our way around a little bit,
and specifically where we are going to be staying
and where we should go
to eat and clean out moss and bedding.
Just the things that we need to know right away
to be able to fit in.
- Sure, absolutely, I'm just waiting for an associate
to come and relay that information.
- All right, well while we're here, then,
what is technology?
- Oh, technology is using parts, things,
mostly what we've scavenged here within the facility,
usually human remains,
to build new products
that can increase our quality of life
and efficacy in the world, like that!
And then truly, a stoat just sprints by
and has a little, it sort of looks leathery,
pack around their waist hooked onto their sash,
and there's just a bunch of little metal tools and gear
down to the size and scale of you all, and you watch
as they immediately run up a pipe and disappear.
There was a trickle of water
coming from the open end of this pipe,
and if you just wait 5 or 10 seconds,
that trickle begins to slow down.
Tools!
- Tools.
- It's like using your claws without using your claws.
- Right, our claws are a gift
that has allowed us for generations untold
to live and survive and thrive here in the woods,
but our minds and the things that we can do with our minds
are truly the difference makers
between us and the other animals in the forest.
Here in this place where we can put
so many bright minds together,
we've been able to invent new and exciting things that...
Are you okay?
I'm sorry, is this a lot? I can...
We can have a conversation like this later.
- What do you do with the stoats whose minds may have faded
and are kind of losing their minds
a bit?
Hi!
- Yes, what happens to them?
- The oldest of your community.
- The oldest of our community serve by simply passing on
wisdom in the oral tradition of Last Bastion.
- So you deal with that, too?
- There are thousands of stoats here,
and everyone does what they can,
and some people are just sort of here to, you know.
Yeah, you get it, you get it.
At this point, you see another stoat has sort of run up
and taps Talia on their shoulder.
Talia confers with them and takes a big bundle.
Okay, I've got eight sashes here.
Go ahead. Tying them, you're going to want to...
And then just fully turns, unties their sash,
and is going to walk you through
like a child learning how to tie a shoelace.
Here's what we're going to do. We're going to go across.
We're going to cross right over left. Right is this hand.
If you hold up your little claw
and you do this, it's the letter L.
Do you guys know how to read? - [Brennan] The what?
- Baby steps, okay, cross over cross,
and then you just kind of do what you want there.
Let's treat them like bunny ears.
You know, we love eating bunnies.
The bunny goes through the hole-
- Not like that, not like that!
- One bunny, another bunny. They cross over each other.
They go through the hole, but the stoat follows,
pulls them tight, and kills them!
(Erika lets loose a savage battle cry)
Here you go.
- All right, that's pretty, yeah, that makes sense.
- You good?
She seems kind of on the ball.
- Thank you for teaching us how to tie the sashes.
We'll get these all tied on our children and family members
when they return. - [Aabria] Absolutely.
- If we have time to see the place that we'll be staying-
- Would you like an escort,
or do you want to find it yourself?
- An escort would be wonderful.
- Absolutely.
And then from under the rest of the sashes
that they hand off, they also hand off
a piece of chipped paint that's blue.
This is the color blue.
It's just a dark, normal, primary blue.
This is your hallway, so follow me,
and if you ever get lost,
you have a little piece of this dark blue.
And just immediately takes off at a speed,
it's truly the New Yorker on the street
that knows how to navigate immediately,
and you're like, okay, you look like you're walking,
but it's going to take me to jog to keep up,
as Talia disappears and heads off.
- Talia, you had mentioned before,
you were saying Bennett, and you referenced him,
it was a name but I know it's not a person's name.
It was almost like a name for-
- Resource Allocation? - Yes, that's a warren?
- Oh, Resource Allocation is one of the jobs
that we do here, which is going and making sure
that there's enough food for everyone, enough bedding,
just the things that we don't have in here already
that we have to go and bring back.
- Oh, I understand, and the other names were all other jobs?
- [Aabria] Yes, yes.
- And does everyone end up in one of those?
- If you can and if your spirit
sort of leads you to helping,
we appreciate all the help we can get.
- Of course, I wouldn't want to just be
like a bump on a log all day, absolutely, thank you.
- What do you think you would like to do?
Jumping off a thing.
- As we're going, I'm going to look over at my sister Viola,
because I'm like, this is where you...
I know that you see opportunities in this
that I'm not going to see, so I'll be like,
well, I think, you know, is there any, you know?
- I have a question.
Those who have, you called it copper.
- Copper, yes. It's a type of metal.
- Population Support.
- Yes. - What does that entail?
- [Aabria] We're the ones that are sort of point persons.
- [Rashawn] Uh-huh.
- If any stoats here require any assistance,
we're kind of looked at like, you know,
if we're all a family, we're all sort of the moms and dads
that help people know what to do and where to be.
- And is there one mom and one dad?
- Well, that's really funny,
because in this field specifically, there are several of us,
because we all have to sort of act independently
and make our own choices,
and we help each other as much as we can,
but really when we talk about the mom and dad-
- Doesn't it get so tiring
to make your own decisions all the time.
- I love my job. - (coughing) Vi!
- Unfortunately, Viola has found herself with
as many stoats as she's ever seen before,
and they are communists.
- Viola said support, but we all heard control.
Just to clarify.
- Support, what a wonderful name for control!
- [Rashawn] Okay, okay, okay. - Sounds like dancing.
But all of us really report at the end of the day
to the First Stoats, so.
- To the First Stoats? - The first? The what?
- The First Stoats, the ones that sort of found Last Bast,
harnessed the Light, and made a space for us here.
- How many winters are they?
- The First Stoats? - Yes.
- Oh, well, my understanding would be that they were here
as long as we've had Last Bastion.
- Thank god you're not here.
- The urge to not metagame is fucking crazy.
I'm playing a stoat who's got to be like, oh!
And Brennan's like, get the fuck out of there!
Get the fuck out of there!
Oh!
- Wow. - [Aabria] Yes.
- 20 winters?
- Yes, you know, the sort of...
It's a miracle. What can I say?
- Now, when you say miracle,
what's a miracle?
- Oh, you know, we understand that the average lifespan
of our kind is around six winters,
if you're lucky and you can get there,
and the people,
the ones that found this place and made a home for us,
we think their proximity to the Light
has granted them special boons and blessings.
- How do we get the Light, then, hm?
- The Light drew you here.
The Light's been within you the whole time.
- Yes, but how do we get the Light
that makes us live for 20 winters?
- I think Mama would love to maybe sit down
and have some berry wine with these First Stoats,
if that's something that they receive, you know, new folks.
I understand if we may have to wait a second.
- You are brand new and I'm showing you
your home for the first time,
and everyone here is open and willing,
but the First Stoats are incredibly busy
maintaining this place.
I hope you will, in due time,
have an opportunity to meet them.
- Did you hear that, girls?
I could live for another 15 winters!
- And at this point, she's now moved to verticality
and is running up- (Brennan shrieking)
- Just starts screaming. (screams)
No, I love you, I want you to live
for as many winters as possible! (shrieking)
- I open my fanny pack
and pull out anything that will soothe.
- Ah! Eternal grandma! Yes, yes, good!
- What fanny pack? What fanny pack, Viola?
You just met clothes!
- She turned her sash into a fanny pack.
Just folded it over and put a little zipper on it.
- Right before Talia leaves,
I just want to ask one last question.
I'm going to say, so you mentioned that Bennett
is the leader of Resource Allocation.
- Resource Allocation, yes.
- Have we met any of the other leaders?
If I were to meet them out and about,
are there names for the other- - Oh yes, absolutely.
If you are looking into Refit, you want to find Malin.
Technology would be Quentin.
Defense is either Carter or Pep. They are twins.
You will not know which is which
the first time you meet them, and that's okay.
- That won't be a problem for me.
- Yeah, I've never believed a thing more
than that sentence specifically.
- And then, of course, Population Support
would be myself or anyone else with copper on.
Though I do regret to say,
we are sort of the only ones that keep ornamentation on us
because we do need to be easily found
within the general population.
But everyone here is deeply friendly and will do their best
to point you in the right direction, wherever that sees fit.
And now has led you up a blue pipe on the wall
down a blue hallway, and you see that there's a big,
dug out, cavernous room that's now been,
there's just wood that you can tell the stoats have added
because it's not of the level of precision
and precise geometry as poured concrete
that's split essentially a massive open shelving area
into just rows and rows of three wall little nests.
Okay, comfortable with numbers?
- We know how to count all the way up to 50,
although we know that numbers do get bigger here.
- They do get bigger, but you just want to go
10 up and 6 over, and that will be you.
If you need more space, please let any one of us know.
- I touch my forehead to your forehead.
- Oh!
- Thank you.
- Is this what you do in your warren?
- Mm-hm. Do you like it?
- It's lovely. Thank you so much, cool.
You see that they kind of wipe their forehead.
You tend to put things on your face to add ornamentation,
and it's not like a "get it off me,"
like you've done the lick spit thing,
but just sort of subtly wiping it off
to go back to their normal state.
Have a wonderful day! And they take off and run away.
From there, we're going to cut
to Thorn and his niece and nephew.
- So!
I was thinking that perhaps we could go and see
if we could inquire about some of this read?
Read? Am I saying that right?
- I don't know.
- Sorry, I thought that you understood.
I thought you knew the words-
- I know how to do it, but I don't really know.
I think it's read. - That's okay, yes.
Let's see if we can find the read,
and you can see what information we can find out
about the Blue, because I think that would be useful, yes.
- Okay.
- Great, I'm going to go do something different from that.
- I did have an idea for you, Jaysohn.
- Do you stay or do you run? - Hey, hey, hey! Jaysohn!
- I'm on the starting line. - Jaysohn, I get it.
Jaysohn, I get it. Please.
Hey, listen, I've got a really special,
super cool task just for you.
- I'm listening.
- So we're in an environment
that neither of us have ever been in before.
This whole place is, the ground is super hard.
Have you noticed this? Really, if you fell off a high thing-
- It's really hard. - It would suck, right?
- It would be bad. - It would be really bad!
So I was thinking, whilst we're going around,
let's be checking this area out
just in case we should ever...
And I'll go in really close.
...we should ever need to fight someone here.
So we get a lay of the land, understand how, you know,
all the angles and everything, you know?
Where we could jump from and get things.
- I can do that. I can do that.
- You can do that? You can help, yeah?
- Yeah, I can do that. Oh yeah.
- Well, we need to keep this quiet, though.
- Yeah! - We don't want anyone else-
- No, no, no. - This is just a-
- No. - Do not tell your mum, please.
Okay, so you're bringing your...
No one else is bringing their paws up here.
- I'm gonna go talk to the other kids.
- Wow, okay, that's cool.
Thorn's trying to walk on two legs.
- Yeah, give me that acrobatics check, baby.
- Okay. - [Rashawn] Real top-heavy.
- Back to four. There we go. - Nat 20.
- [Aabria] You've got a hang of it now.
- You're so good at this. - [Siobhan] You're so good at this!
- You're so good at read and walk?
Aabria, this character's broken.
- Rogues are broken.
Yeah, I think you're at this point sort of seeing
that the rest of your family is doing a bit of a hunch
and tapping down onto a third or fourth
and you, again, having been careful
and truly observing and watching the flow of people,
have a sense of the balance required to stay on two legs.
I think you feel a little bit of the, oh,
I'm sore because my body doesn't stay in this position
very long, but you could do this all day.
- Yes, I'll sort of see potentially
either one of the Population Support
or just a touching point as to the direction
of someone who might have some information
about the Blue or anywhere we could do the read.
- Yeah, I will say, Olliver and Teedles
sort of splintered off from you
as you guys went down to get in and around everything.
And to answer your sort of earlier question
without requiring a roll,
because it really just is that ubiquitous,
stoats that have gifts in and around the Blue
or what they call the Light
use their gifts openly and frequently.
- Okay, and does it seem to be the general populace?
- Yeah. - Yeah, okay, cool.
- And then Teedles is going to kind of come up
over your shoulder and say, hey boss,
I went and found people to talk to.
It looks like just sort of generally speaking,
everyone gets a job in a couple days.
They will give us a room if we ask for it.
I don't know if it sounds like
what your wife was working on. - Yes, I think.
- And apparently there's a thing
for young stoats who do not have work yet.
It's called Education. - Education.
- And there's a room that you put them in.
- Oh wow.
- [Aabria] And then they're gone for the day.
- Huh!
- I feel normal about that, but it does feel important
that you know that that is a thing that exists.
- Okay. - And that they like.
- Okay, well, perhaps tomorrow you can-
- Tomorrow, okay, sure. What do you want me to do?
- Do you think they need to go now?
- No, I would love a task,
because it looks like you're very busy with them.
- Yeah, well, I guess...
I'll sort of lean in again and be like,
if there's any sort of hierarchy here-
- Yeah, so much.
- It might be good to establish a structure.
Who is answering to who?
- Sure, everyone keeps talking about First Stoats,
and then there are five designations, groupings, under that.
They go ahead and list off the same-
- I'm just like, why am I in charge?
Teedles is so good at this.
- You need information, I give it to you,
and then you make a dramatic speech
or delegate things back for me to do.
- Well, good work, Teedles.
Will you be staying with us, you and Olliver?
- Do you want us- - Yes, definitely.
- Then yes, why would we not?
- [Jasper] As long as you don't mind putting up with Ava.
If that's going to be a problem, all I'm saying is,
I won't blame you if you want to stay somewhere else.
- I'm going to be very honest. - Mm-hm?
- I don't feel like I can tell you the truth in this moment.
- I don't feel like you need to.
- Cool.
- [Jasper] You stay wherever you need to stay.
- Amazing. If you need me, I'm going to be in yellow.
Takes a little thing out of their sash,
snaps it in half, a little paint chip of yellow.
This is what yellow is, so if you aim in that direction,
you can find us. - Okay.
- You guys good? Are you guys having fun?
I don't know why they're suddenly condescending.
Hey, it's a lot of stoats in here.
How're you guys doing, buddies? How're you holding up?
- Fine. - Yeah, we're fine.
- It's been a big day. You saw some dead bodies.
- Yeah, we see dead bodies all the time.
- We kill them. - Sure, okay, well-
- We killed a bear with our bare hands, just the two of us.
- [Aabria] Okay.
- A different time than the other day.
- It was a different time than the other one.
You didn't see that one either.
- Nobody did. - I've never seen anything.
Okay.
- Our dad was there, but it was just us. He just watched.
- Trust us and our dad. He watched it.
- That sounds great. Are you...
Okay, this can be a lot. Oh my god, the fuck?
You good? There's a lot of stuff to do here.
- Yeah, there's a lot of stuff to do here. I'm good.
- Okay. - Who are you?
- What? - Tiddles?
- Jaysohn, you know who Teedles is. Come on.
- This might be Jaysohn being like, wait,
who have you been this whole time?
- I think I did that yesterday.
- Teedles is one of the ones
helping with our secret mission.
- [Aabria] Sure, secret mission. - Okay.
- Okay, all right.
- So I don't have a super special secret mission then,
because we have a-
- You put your hand out, and Teedles breaks off
a little piece of a leaf and puts it there.
That's a gift from Olliver. I wouldn't have given it to you.
I'm going to go, bye. And takes off.
And you smell it, and it just smells like...
Do you think Jaysohn's ever had mint before?
- [Jasper] Whoa. - Oh, I don't know. Maybe not.
- Okay, you smell something cold spicy,
and you remember Olliver was very excitedly
getting leaves quite a while ago.
- Put some in my mouth and just...
- Olliver!
- A last little bit of eye contact from Teedles.
Takes off.
- Just try some, it's completely normal.
- No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
Okay, you're going to be a dad soon.
You're going to be a dad soon. Pull it together.
Pull it together, this is it. - It's hot and it's cold!
- Get it out of my throat! - Are you choking? Are you choking?
- Pull it out of my throat! Pull it out!
- I like it, actually!
- Not like that! Not like that!
- Why are you chewing? Why are you chewing?
I'm so ill prepared for this! Oh god, okay, right.
Let's just find someone, get some information on the Blue,
and then go to blue or yellow or something.
- You're going to have to pull it out of his butt later.
- It's not like floss! It'll digest!
- I don't know how stoats digest.
- That smells so strong.
- Lila's just been looking for anybody doing magic.
- [Aabria] As previously stated, just about everyone,
everywhere you look, you see little pulses of light
at some point. - Okay.
- So everyone here, stoats can use Blue,
and they have no sense of, hide it, don't use it.
It's making things happen quickly and easily.
- Yeah, okay, so I found out about the Light and the Blue.
Everybody has it, we're not special anymore.
- Yes, I can see, yep.
We might still be a little bit special,
but I think it'd be good for us
to just understand it a little bit more
so that we can, you know, know what's going on.
It's less of a scary thing that we have to think about.
Maybe they might have some answers, how to access it,
use it to further our abilities, our skills.
- Does Lila see any more signs?
- Everywhere. Give me just a general-
(Izzy wheezing dizzily)
- Okay, what's happening? Is it the leaves again?
The leaves again? Okay, Lila!
Immediately reach down her throat.
- You know what, give me a perception check.
It's not even investigation,
because you're not looking for it,
you're just seeing what you see.
- A kid on a road trip reading every billboard.
- Truly, that is exactly it.
- 11. You sure it's not investigation?
- I mean, I think it's perception, because investigation
is when you focus on a thing you care about,
and right now there's just so much data and stimuli
that you're like, if someone gave me a thing
to drill down on, you'd be great.
Right now you're just catching a general vibe.
On top of just figuring out and getting a mental model
of what hundreds upon hundreds of stoats
looks like in one place, you're seeing little signs
in places that you could run up and read.
You're now learning the difference
between the signs that stoats make for each other
and the words you're seeing inside this,
and looking up and seeing, sort of faded and chipped,
but in a large scale across the walls,
you see the name of this place,
the Warren Peace Memorial Nuclear Power Plant.
- Warren Peace? - Mm-hm.
If you flip over your-
- [Jasper] What?
- Welcome to the place you are.
(Brennan screams)
- It's been here the whole time.
- You son of a bitch! Aabria and her props!
- Damn, I was like immediately, I don't need this!
Get this shit out, I've too much fucking shit on me.
- Nuclear power for a growing world.
- [Jasper] Oh boy.
- So I see that sign. - [Aabria] Yeah.
- But that doesn't really mean anything to me.
- Do you want to try to understand...
This is going to be closer to arcana to push to understand
concepts that don't mean anything in the one to one.
- Yeah, or can I do researcher vibes to be like,
how would we find out more about reading?
- So give me the arcana check now
to just sort of push and get it in this moment
where you're like, what the fuck is that?
And then if you fail the roll,
then it becomes, here's how you find out what to know.
Did you get a natural 20?
- No, but I got a 23. - Oh my god! Amazing.
A 23, I think there's something.
You have been wary of the Blue.
You want to destroy it because it's also,
on top of this thing that adults only ever spoke about
in terms that were so vague as to think that they were bad
or couldn't be understood perfectly, it's very strange
to be now around thousands of stoats using this power,
and without having that little moment of,
don't use it, just use your brain, you lean in
and I think there's something that sparks and connects
and says that I am very smart
and maybe the Blue has something to do with that.
As you really focus and the understanding of words
that would never be tethered to anything become clear,
and as you're reading and scanning,
it becomes easier to read.
And yeah, you understand that the thing you're reading
is a name, and nuclear power plant,
it's generating some sort of energy.
- Yeah. - Now that you look around,
you're like, oh, it is really weird that-
- And it says Warren!
- Yes, it does. You know the word warren.
- Yeah.
- And that's the pun, everyone.
But now you understand, you're like, oh,
the fact that there's light down here
where before, in your home, it was just dark
unless moonlight was coming in,
there's water that comes in through pipes
that you can hear and that you see trickling through places.
This thing generates resources that stoats need,
so you have that understanding.
Maybe not nuclear, because that doesn't really line up,
but you have a sense of what this place does,
and that a lot of the stoats running around
are making sure that this place can continue to do it.
- Is there a place that I feel like
I should go to or check out?
- The idea of, where should I go,
is very much tied to, to accomplish what?
What do you want?
- I think what might be useful for us to understand
is to what extent
stoats and other creatures have used this power, I guess,
so that we might understand if it's-
- Lila, let's go talk to the other kids.
- Okay.
- They have this thing called Education,
and so I think maybe that's a good thing for kids.
- I think I already hate it.
- You don't have any...
Do you have more of a frame of reference?
Have I missed something? - Lila, this pings,
that word, absent of nothing,
registers to you what it means.
Make a wisdom saving throw for me.
- The concept of school?
- 21.
- With a 21, there's something-
- It's bad.
- You see the look of recognition on your sister,
and I think that pushes you.
You do a lot of, she says something, I'm gonna repeat it,
and sort of turning over that word in your mind,
knowing that, my sister knows what that means.
Could I know what that means?
Your brain alights on, it's where you learn things.
- Well, if we want to learn stuff.
- Yeah, where's Education? - We could find Education.
- If that's where the other kids are, we should go there.
- Okay, let's go find Education, I guess.
- I think we should also find where...
Okay, I'm going to level with you.
- Mm-hm. Yeah. Tell me straight.
Let's go. What's bothering you, hm?
- I will remind you,
you are in a mass of just so many stoats.
If you're trying to have a private conversation,
I just want to remind you
of the setting that you're in right now.
If you're trying to have a bit of an aside,
you might want to try to get somewhere a little more quiet
unless you're comfortable having this conversation.
- No, it's fine.
- I just don't want to surprise you later and be like,
a bunch of people heard that.
- I don't think Lila even understands the concept of people-
- [Aabria] Vibes.
- There's so many people here that it's just like-
- Yeah, at some point you're like, it's just noise.
- We're having a conversation in a train station.
Nobody else is listening.
(Aabria laughs)
- Before today...
Before today I was like...
I was like, we have to stop the Blue.
- Uh-huh, yes, I remember you saying.
- Yeah, because they told us it was bad.
But now it's good. It's magic.
- Okay, but (stammering) shut up!
- [Jasper] Yep, okay.
- I'm trying to work through it!
- You do what you need to do.
- Okay. (sighs)
Uncle Thorn. (sighs)
I've not always been honest with you.
- (gasps) You're going to get in trouble.
- Okay, no no no, it's fine.
Hey, look, this is a safe space. Say what you need to say.
- [Aabria] Deception check. - Yep.
That is a 27.
- Yeah, he looks genuinely surprised
that you would ever deceive him.
I'm not going to make you roll against it.
That's just really funny.
- Can I make an insight check to see if-
- He's lying to you? You do do that.
You have an Ear for Deceit. Yeah, go ahead.
- To be like, is this safe? - [Aabria] Okay, yeah, go ahead.
- To just bare- - [Aabria] Yeah, use your ability.
- Okay, so I actually can't get under a-
- Correct, but did you roll a 27?
- No, I did not.
- I think there's a moment where you don't feel
like this is unsafe, but you just aren't clocking
that you said, I haven't been straight with you,
and he's like, that's so wild.
- He's definitely encouraging you.
Like, regardless of whether he's going to get
his feelings hurt or whatever, he's just like, look-
- Yeah, that was you clocking an adult going,
oh, a child lied to me?
Could you imagine?
- [Jasper] Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm like, okay, chill.
- You didn't notice.
This is open, forthright, and trustworthy.
- Sometimes I pretended to be
a little bit more interested in the Lukura than I was,
and sometimes you would be like,
we have to harness the Blue!
And I would be like, yeah, totally.
And then I would go to my mom and be like,
we have to destroy the Blue.
But you just revealed to me that you knew that,
that I wanted to do that.
Anyway, so but now we come here,
and I'm like whoa, this place is safe,
and I had all these ideas where I was like,
we should build something super big to protect us!
And I'm like, what? People did that, this is crazy!
- [Jasper] You're just ahead of the curve.
- What's the point of me anymore?
- Whoa! Okay! - And I'm like, and now-
- But there's nobody...
No, look, there's not going to be anybody here
as smart as you, because you're so clever.
What's the point of me?
- Jaysohn, shut up! - You shut up!
- Whoa, hey, what did we say about-
- I grapple her. - I grapple you.
- Whoa, no no no no no no! - But the thing is,
there's so many people here that it doesn't even matter!
- I'm going to need you to make a grapple check
right now to separate them.
- Truly-
- Up against both of you, rolling...
It's got to be athletics.
- There's zero chance that I succeed.
- Nat one, nat one. - You both rolled nat ones!
(cast cheering)
- [Brennan] Now all you need to do- - Is not roll a nat one!
- C'mon.
- Please! - [Rashawn] Oh my god.
- Please do it. - That's a five!
That's a five! - That's a five!
- Yes! - [Erika] That's a five!
- Wow, one of the most triumphant five of all time.
- That's a five! - Barely hanging on.
- Fucking strike up the band! (jaunty marching band music)
- Honestly more excited than his nat 20.
- We reacted like you rolled a five on a d4.
That's what that was. My god.
- But it really looked like it was going to hit a one
for a second, it really did, oh my god.
- We all just fall off scaffolding.
- All three of us, somehow I come out holding both of you.
- There's that moment where you're like, oh, not again.
I'm not going to be able to handle it.
And then something in you is like, goddammit!
And you just grab them
and you've got them both by their scruffs.
- Okay, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
- Why, I oughta!
- I'm going to close my eyes and swing my arms!
- [Aabria] And he's kicking.
- I face them away from each other
whilst they have their eyes closed
so they're not even looking at each other anymore.
- [Aabria] Great, perfect. - Where are you?
Come back, you coward! You're cheating!
- I'll do the thing you do with crocodiles,
cover their eyes.
- What happened?
- Shh, breathe. Breathe, breathe, breathe.
- You put them on their back.
It's called tonic immobility,
and I'll never forget that that exists.
- Whew, I'm doing it. Parenting, okay.
Whew, okay, listen.
- It smells so minty now that they've panted around you.
- Oh, it's spicy.
Lila, there will always be space
for people as bright and intelligent as you.
The whole reason why stoats keep getting better and better
generation after generation is because
every new generation is that little bit better,
that little bit smarter, and that's you right now.
You're going to be the smartest person
in this warren for sure in just a few months.
All you have to do is, I guess,
Education, and you'll get there.
- But is our mom going to be okay?
- Your mom is going to be fine. Think about this.
Your mom's finally somewhere where she doesn't have to...
I mean, when was the last time that your mom
let you out of her sight?
She's safe and comfortable.
- The other- - That was us, though.
We ran away. - Oh yeah.
- I mean willingly, willingly. That's a really big word.
Sorry, I definitely should have said willingly.
Jaysohn, I gave you this task
because I really believe in you.
You've been incredible out in the forest,
and the thing is, all I want you to be able to do
is be that good but in here, okay?
- What are you holding? - Yeah, what are you holding?
- Your collarbone? I hold my collarbone when I get nervous.
- Just fully gripped around it.
- [Erika] Popped collarbone.
- I was thinking about this, Jaysohn.
Maybe, if you were interested,
I could probably do with another Beacon.
Another general to my army, if you will.
- No, no. - Okay, that's fine.
(Izzy cackling)
I'll get there one day.
Hopefully my kids will like me and respect me.
Okay.
- I think you're great.
I actually feel really bad
about thinking that you maybe, like, were bad.
- Insight check. - [Aabria] Yeah.
- You just told me you lied to me.
- [Aabria] Exactly.
- I'm not going to take this sincerely.
- Make an insight check. - But I'm saying I feel bad!
- Okay, you have to make a deception or persuasion.
- 16.
- Three.
- Are you telling- - I'm telling the truth!
- I...
- What's that?
- I just learned this.
No, you grab hold of my paw. Paw on paw.
Yeah, okay, and then you sort of do this,
and it's a sign of respect.
Apparently.
We're all learning new things, right?
- We are talking a lot, but we should be going to Education.
- [Jasper] Education, we should be.
- Where the other kids are, where we can get secrets.
- [Jasper] And we'll get all the secrets. Okay, great.
- We can tell them about the bear!
- Okay, we're going to just,
we do need to be careful about scaring the other kids.
These kids have grown up in here.
They've not seen the, you know.
- Oh my gosh, I just remembered about the human monsters!
- Oh! - That's my purpose!
- That's your purpose! - Hey, excuse me!
- We kill them! - If you could direct me
to Education where I can drop these two off for the day?
- Would you like an escort
or would you like me to handle this for you?
- How do you think we kill them?
- Education, if you could guide us to Education,
that would be fantastic. - Hi, children.
- We're going to Education! - I need you to follow me.
- Do you know where Sybil is?
- What's your name? Do you know Sybil?
- [Aabria] Persuasion check.
- 12. - Sweet. My name is Ellen.
- Okay. - I know of a Sybil, yes.
I don't know if that's- - She's great.
- Okay, you do appear to be new,
so I don't know who you know here.
- We don't know anyone. - Okay, you know Sybil.
- We know Sybil.
- And the guy who wants to fuck our mom.
- Whoa.
- He wants to be our second dad. - Where did you learn that?
- Grandma. - Of course.
- I'm sorry that you don't want your mom
to be fucked by not your dad.
I don't really know what we're doing here.
- We killed a bear. Where's Education?
- Follow me. Tell me about this bear.
- Okay! So the other day-
- For the first time,
Thorn truly distances enough to see them
but just enough to get a little peace and quiet.
- [Aabria] For sure.
- Thorn, do you have more mint?
- Yeah, have you tried mint?
It's so good! - So bad.
- She will happily lead you towards Education.
- Thorn actively turning gray.
- I need an insight check from both of you,
and you have to beat a 19.
- Oh boy.
That's a seven.
- 22. - [Siobhan] Oh, nice.
- You're just gabbing away with Ellen.
You do realize that as she's asking you questions like,
tell me about the bear you killed.
How do you know Sybil?
Who's the person that wants to fuck your mom?
- Bryan? - Branston.
- Bryan Cranston.
(Erika cackles)
- If we can have, after the credits,
a sting with Bryan Cranston holding a stoat.
(Bryan Cranston impression) Well, well, well.
- I am the one who fucks. - That's why we have to kill all humans,
because one dude named Bryan Cranston
keeps coming up and trying to fuck all the stoats.
- Rashawn just said, "I am the one who fucks."
- Yeah!
Important. Inspiration. - Ooh, again?
- [Aabria] You can only have one. You have to use that.
- I have it already.
- I'm saving it for a rainy day.
- Sure, you very quickly clock
that Ellen's a bit of a gossip monger.
Bryan? You know what, fuck Bryan.
I've heard he goes around to anyone that's new-
- Wait, that wasn't his name, right?
- No, I know, you've mentioned a name.
- You hit someone's battleship.
You found goss about a new person.
- And I'm like, wait, what? This guy?
- Yeah, okay, so every time a new group of stoats comes in,
he swoops in before anyone can warn anyone,
and he's always like, oh, I just am looking for a family,
but I've seen so much trauma out in the woods...
And everyone fucking falls for it.
- Oh my gosh, we have to warn Mom!
- Bryan who?
- Bryan, the guy who wants to fuck her!
- Where are all the secrets?
- What kind of secrets?
What do you mean? And this is a walk and talk.
- Who's- - I can read.
- That's not a secret. - [Aabria] Amazing!
- It's really cool. - Half of Education is just
kind of getting stoats from out in the world up to speed.
- Can you do a forward roll? (Erika laughs)
- It's not great, but she does do it.
She kind of just curls in on herself.
It's a lot of very fast walk and talk,
and then you know when you're a full adult
and you're like, I learned how to do cartwheel as a child,
and you're like, okay, hold on, slowly.
But does slowly do a forward roll, kind of gets up.
- Are you okay?
- Ooh, that did not feel great.
- [Siobhan] That was pretty good. - Imagine being challenged
by a child to do a somersault and being like, I'll show you.
- On the concrete floor of this bunker.
- Doesn't feel great. Well, there's no secrets here.
Everyone's pretty open and honest.
- Are you guys going to kill humans?
- Yes.
- [Izzy And Siobhan] Cool.
- Can we do that? - Can we do it?
- Yes! How do you want to kill humans?
- Oh! - [Aabria] They're bad.
- I want to push a tree on them.
- Push a tree on them?
- Just biting. - Yeah, bite. Kick.
- Amazing. They're very big.
- Bury.
- A berry? - Bury them.
- Oh, bury. Okay, I'm hearing it right now.
- Dig a hole.
- Do you think a human killed my dad?
- Huh? - Yes! Oh, oh, oh!
Yes!
- By the way, you are now standing in front of a room.
Both of my brand new readers and understanders of things,
go ahead and give me just a general intelligence roll.
- 10. - [Aabria] That's pretty good.
- For Jaysohn, pretty good. - [Aabria] Pretty good.
You're sort of staring at these symbols,
and you get this idea.
You're like, I don't really know what that would mean
or what a daycare would even be,
and you don't realize that you've read those words.
You clocked it immediately.
Daycare, I guess that's what Education is, got it.
So you're standing in front of the door,
but Ellen is riveted.
Okay, so we're talking about burying them in the ground.
They're very large. You said something about your father.
Was your father killed by humans?
- There's a lot to unpack here, honestly.
- But he was really brave.
- Aw, I'm so sorry he died very bravely.
That's very nice, though. - I'm not sorry about that.
- No, yes, I'm sorry he's gone.
I'm happy it was a moment of bravery.
- Yeah, he was really brave. He saved all of our lives.
- Yeah, I don't know if that's true.
I kind of resent it, but I'm not supposed to say that
because my mom gets mad because it's like-
- No, you can't talk about Dad-
- You're allowed to have your pain, that's valid.
- Everyone processes in a different way.
- So are we supposed to go to daycare?
- I mean, yeah, but it feels like you've got read down,
and that's half the battle. - Nice.
- Well, let's see what the other half of the battle is.
Hey! (all laughing)
Push the door open, push them in, yank on the door.
(Jasper panting in relief)
- Fifty percent is not a passing grade. Let's get in there!
- We don't accept anything less than 57. In you go!
- Thorn has had the kids for less than an hour,
and is absolutely done. - Absolutely done.
- It's all about building it up, baby.
You've got to build it up.
- I'm trying to remember exactly what I said
when I gave the kids to Thorn.
I was like, take them off, keep an eye on them.
- Hey, I'm staying right outside this door,
but I'm staying on the other side of this door
for just, like, five minutes.
- Teedles, Olliver, I am the best dad ever.
- As that door shuts behind you,
Ellen is just,
oh, ba ba ba.
- I'm honestly just going to take a quick five minutes
to take a breath. - Sure, sure.
I'm going to go. - Cool.
- Is it okay if Lila comes out?
- Nope.
This is just a quick cutaway moment.
In that awkward space, we're going to jump back
to the rest of our adults
as Olliver rocks up to your group.
- Sash. - (gasp) Thank you.
Shit, now I have to...
Two is good. Just sort of doubles up.
Do you want mint? Want some mint?
- Oh, that's so sweet. I'll hold onto that, thank you.
- I would also like some mint. - Oh, yeah yeah yeah.
- And if you don't actually need that second sash,
we could hold onto it, because-
- Yeah, thank you, thank you. So good.
Thank you so much. You guys are staying here?
- 10 by 6.
- Great, we're over in the yellow hallway, 19 by 3.
Oh, Teedles told me to tell you that there's Education.
It's a thing, it's a place you send children,
and my understanding was that Thorn
would be walking Jaysohn and Lila
over to Education.
- How dare he?
- No, it's where the children go
so they can meet other children.
- Oh, that sounds nice.
(cast laughs at the quick switch)
- So we have our sleeping quarters.
It seems like, do we know if the sleeping quarters
are assigned by the jobs?
Does every sleeping hall have people
that do all the jobs in it?
We didn't get a chance to ask.
- Oh, my understanding is it's sort of first come.
They just make a decision, they find an open space.
- Oh, okay. We should probably think carefully about-
- They're kind of doing the lean.
Are you having a private...
Should I go? Are you good, do you need anything from me?
- If there's nothing else, if there's anything
you need from us, we know where to find you.
- 19 by 3, yes, yes. 10 by 6, got it.
Bye. Takes off.
- I'm going to lean in and say,
it seems like food is not a thing that there's little of
around here, and we have a place to stay.
- Defending the burrow is also pretty locked down.
- We have a lot of free time.
What do we do now that we don't have to protect anything
or worry about food? (Brennan quietly sobbing)
Oh no. I hold her.
It's okay, you can take a little...
(Rashawn and Erika whispering comforts) (Aabria cackles)
She's asleep! She's asleep!
- Is she crying in her sleep?
- I'm listening for the snore.
- That's Brennan. (snore)
- You know, Mama, I haven't heard Tula snore
since we were children.
- She really hasn't had the opportunity to snore, you know.
I don't know that she goes
all the way into sleep every night.
I think she's in a constant state of alertness
even when her eyes- - There's a problem!
- No, no, no. Everything's fine.
- You'll learn to do that when you're a mother, too.
- [Aabria] Oh my god! - No, I'm not-
- Viola, Mama's right. You will learn to do that.
- No, I'll be fine. I have lots of energy.
I'm not going to be, you know...
I'm going to be a completely different mama. I'm so sorry.
Not that you aren't doing anything nice, but I mean-
- Well, I suppose your sister knows best!
- I feel uncomfortable with this dynamic.
Me boxing out my sister to bond with my mom
does not feel right.
I'm going to go,
we should find out
how they give jobs.
- Yes, what's this popular control?
- Oh, the Population Control.
Those were the copper ones, they're the helpful ones.
- I find copper to be highfalutin.
That being said, I think, Viola, you'd be very good at that.
I bet that you could be right up there with Talulla.
- What a- - I've taken so much
second degree psychic damage from that whole sentence.
- I fall asleep. No.
Yeah, I think that's the job
that seemed most appealing to me.
- That seems like the one, also,
that has the most high levels, it seems like space,
to be one of the people that sort of gets a say.
- Yes, I think it would be a good idea for us
to get roles in these different departments
and kind of learn how they operate,
see if maybe we can make some improvements
or if anyone's upset about anything.
- I specifically would like to find out
when and how they sort children into these jobs.
I don't want...
I don't want Jaysohn or Lila to be sorted into Defense.
That's my instinct.
- Because as soon as Jaysohn does a backflip, it's over.
- He'd be very good at it.
He'd be able to help the warren and help it thrive.
- But Mama, the one who got slammed against a tree,
they left them out there, didn't even give them a name.
- They wouldn't even say their names.
- Once they're gone, they're gone.
- Names aren't all that important.
- Mama.
- There are so many stoats in this burrow
that they have to wear things
just to know who their family is.
- They're not doing it to be fabulous, like me.
- Viola thought it was about fabulous for a second.
- Yes.
- Real quick, just give me a general charisma check.
- Can I use my inspiration? - [Aabria] Yeah, obviously.
- Charisma, you said? - Yeah.
- I have a plus seven. - Hell yeah.
- A plus nine because of my aura.
Does my Aura of Protection work on me?
- Well, is it a save? It's not a save.
This isn't a charisma save. - Oh, okay.
- Just a general check. - Okay, okay. Cool, cool.
Okay, 16 plus my charisma. 18.
- Yeah, you say fabulous and you're like,
a sash is the least interesting thing
you could do with this fabric, and now you know
you have extra, and I'm going to leave you with that.
- Okay. - Cool.
- So close to inventing hats.
- I just want you to be on the road to hats.
- I mean, of course I don't want Jaysohn to end up out there
thrown against a tree but, I mean,
you've got to let him out of the burrow sometime.
- Well, I understand, and look,
I don't think Jaysohn would be happy doing Refit,
but I just don't want him to be put into Defense
or get talked to by someone...
I just have a feeling.
- Lila is smarter than the average bear.
She asks so many questions, that could bother some people.
- Knock knock! Sorry!
You hear a tapping on the side of the wood of your cubby den
and you see, peeking around,
she's just sort of slipped over, and it's Sybil.
Hi!
- Sybil! - Hi, hi, hi.
Sorry, I thought I heard your voices.
Hi, you were talking about the tree
and I was like, oh, you have questions.
Hi, can I help you with everything?
- Oh, you certainly could. Can I offer you some mint?
Would you like any mint? - I love mint.
- Well, please have some. - Come in, come in, come in.
- I'm going to look over at Vi and be like....
And I go, yes, oh my god, have some.
- Full hostess. Water. - She takes it, bites it,
and is like, oh, I didn't know what mint was. It's hot.
- Oh, is that not good? - Spit it out, spit it out.
- I didn't know what mint was. I didn't like it.
- Do we have candy for Sybil? - [Erika] Yes.
- My nose feels bad.
- Do you want some strawberry?
- Yes. - Here, you have that.
- Thank you.
- Sybil, it's so wonderful that you're here.
First of all, thank you so much
for being so kind to Lila and Jaysohn.
- Yeah, they're great.
- And they just immediately took a shine to you.
They really, really were so excited
to meet you and get a chance to talk to you.
I wanted to ask, if I could,
we had some questions about the process from here.
It seems like everything is so well cared for in Last Bast,
and what it looks like for us to be given tasks and jobs.
- Yes, well, when you sort of feel like you're acclimated...
Sorry, just so you know, you can go pick up food
for your group in the morning and sort of after the sunset,
so that would be down, do you remember the big hall?
I don't really know where you came in.
You could just sort of follow everyone.
Everyone will go in one direction,
and you kind of just wait in line.
Then you'll get your, whatever meat.
It's probably rabbit. We have a lot of rabbit.
We did a really good job with the rabbits.
But then when you feel like there's something you want
to do or contribute, in your time and in your own space,
if you find any of the Population Support,
they can point you in the direction
of what you think you would be good at.
You can have a conversation,
and they'll tell you kind of what-
- Who will tell us?
- You'll just be like, here's what I did where I came from,
or here's a thing I'm really good at.
And they'll be like, well, maybe you want to go try this,
and then go find a sort of department lead.
- And is that a conversation...
Are there specific people
who will give us those directions, or-
- Pretty much anyone. I don't know if you met...
Well, you must have, because you're here now.
- Talia, we met, in Population Control.
- Oh, Talia's great, yeah.
If you talk to Talia,
she'll sort of just point you towards someone.
I will say, I'm very biased to Resource Allocation,
because that's mostly what new people
come in and are good at.
They're like, I'm good at surviving out there.
And we're like, cool, help the group.
That's the thing we need the most of. Most people.
- Is that quite a dangerous...
Of the jobs that exist, is that one quite dangerous?
- Not normally! Give me an insight check.
You have to beat a 21.
- Well, a nat 20 gives me 30.
- Got to make you roll any other fucking stat.
That was so great.
Shit.
Yeah, you see immediately in her face not deceit,
but a sort of, you realize that even she has a bit of,
today kind of fucking sucked
and it's normally not like that,
and you see that little bit of a stammer,
a stutter in her excitement for her job.
Today was particularly rough,
and it's not normally like that.
I'll let you ask other things down the line
through this interaction,
because it's a crit on the interaction.
- I'm going to look over at my sister
with a little eye contact to think about the fact
that there's a little vulnerability here,
and just give my sister a move of, I'm going in.
- I just tip some more berry wine into your mouth.
- [Brennan] I'm really sorry about-
- Different kind of spicy. Wet spicy.
- I wanted to say that I am so sorry
for the member of your warren
that was lost during that hunt.
That was very, very sad. We just lost many in our warren.
It doesn't get easy no matter how many people you lose.
- Yeah, it's rough.
It's always rough to lose someone.
- I hope this is all right for me to say,
but we're meeting everyone for the first time,
and you just showing the kindness that you did to my kids
has made a very difficult thing much easier.
We just want to be able to be as helpful as possible
and keep these young ones safe.
I would like to use Emissary of Peace,
which gives me a plus five to persuasion checks.
- Oh shit! - And I'll look to my sister,
if you have any other stuff to juice this next skill check.
Actually, I have a point of inspiration,
so I'm going to spend this here.
- I could also cast Zone of Truth on her
so she has to be a little bit more honest with you.
- Yeah, I'm going to look at that as,
maybe I'll look at that like a last ditch.
I'll make this first push honestly.
I'm going to do a persuasion check, if I can.
- [Aabria] Absolutely.
- I'm rolling plus nine right now.
Okay, 19.
- Okay, what are you trying to do?
- I'm sure countless new stoats come in here every day,
and I know that there are some jobs
that might be more dangerous than others or some jobs
that are a little bit more
punishing in some ways,
and I know that we all have to do our part as a family.
So I just want to say,
if you have any insight or advice for us,
I would be happy to clean the muck out of pits
or do whatever hard thing there is to do.
I just want to be able to steer
Lila and Jaysohn in the right direction
to make sure they're not in harm's way.
Do you have any advice for me?
- And while you were having this intensely sincere moment,
you see that Sybil is sort of backing up
towards that open area, and then her ears
kind of flick back, and then she's going to fully lean away
just to see the perimeter of these other cubbies,
and sort of looking glad of whatever she spotted,
will come back in very closely.
Normally, Resource Allocation is very easy,
and we just go out and hunt and forage,
sort of clean up brush.
It's been getting a little more dangerous lately,
and Curtis...
And the ones that we lose are not always...
When one of us passes away,
it's said that it's never easy
to take a loss,
but it is made easier by taking their names away first.
- What? - When a stoat passes,
it's easier if we stop thinking of them
as a person. - Easier for who?
- All of us.
There are thousands of us, and bad things happen every day.
I don't really want to forget his name yet,
but it'll be easier. - Say his name.
- I don't think I should do that.
- I grab your paws.
Take a deep breath.
Release. (Aabria wheezes)
It's okay, you can say their name.
I lost my father, Kenji.
- Kenji.
When you say Kenji's name, she just sort of,
not in a mean way, but just sort of pulls back.
You see her kind of sit back on her haunches,
still bipedal, but just upright.
When you think of your father's name,
it still hurts, doesn't it?
- No.
I'm thrown back into memories of feeling warm and safe
and knowing that that warmth and safety
still lives within me.
That person can live on even after they're gone.
You shouldn't just forget them completely,
because what was their life worth if you just forget them?
- Yes, that's something that works for my girls.
Me, on the other hand,
I agree that you should probably push that down real tight,
never think about it ever again.
- Now, do you see that big hump on Mama's back?
- That's where she keeps all of her wisdom.
- [Rashawn] Yes. - That is correct.
You could learn something from this young lady.
- Do you remember...
I heard when I was growing up
that before, you didn't have names.
Do you remember that? The time before we had names?
- I think that before a certain point,
I don't remember
us having names like you all have these days,
but there was always mother,
brother, sister,
neighbor.
So even if we didn't have
some hoity-toity moniker,
we knew who we were to one another,
and that was the important part.
- Brother. - That was-
- Oh shit! - Brother.
- He was my brother. - That's rough.
- I'm going to give this poor kid a hug. She's young.
I'm just going to give her a hug.
- Oh god!
- Just go limp, just go limp. - [Brennan] It's all right.
- She does begin to cry, but also is taking,
she's very dialed into your energy and does kind of go limp.
- How does she do that? How can she just-
- [Aabria] So she just smears tears down your skin. - We did all the work,
and then she swooped in and got the hug!
- I crave discipline!
- We won't tell anyone that you broke a rule
or said a name or anything like that.
But the truth is, they can make a rule,
but you could never forget that name.
- Yeah.
- [Brennan] That's all right. That's beautiful.
- Thanks. I don't...
Thank you. You're very nice, I'm glad you're here.
- I'm glad you're here.
It's nice to know that this place
can house sweet and smart and capable people,
because that's what I want my kids to be when they grow up.
It's good to know about Resource Allocation.
Is there anything here
that I should try to keep my kids away from?
Is there anything that's dangerous
or anyone that I should try to make sure
we don't get on the bad side of?
- Do you promise to keep a secret?
- Yes, and I mean it.
- I'm going to show you something.
- Okay. - Follow me.
- I'm going to look at my...
Let's go.
- She is going to scurry down far and away
and starts leading you down a series-
- I finish her berry as we go.
- I'm looking at my mom and sister and I'm like, go team.
- And leads you down and away
through a series of colored hallways towards a big sign.
You know what, as you're moving, actually,
I want you two to give me...
This is spellcasting, so give me a roll
with your spellcasting modifier.
You two, what are you-
- For read?
- For read. - I will absolutely not.
- You don't want that smoke at all?
Just make an intelligence check, then.
- [Rashawn] Yeah, baby.
- That's an eight. - [Aabria] An eight?
- Auntie V crit! - [Erika] No, that's a seven.
- [Aabria] You're fine. What happened?
What? Nat 20? - [Brennan] Nat 20!
- [Aabria] Let's go! - That's my girl!
- [Aabria] Amazing.
- I can read!
- Makes sense, I'm not-
- You're following hot on the heels of Sybil
trying to keep up with where she's going, and you,
you're still in that sort of, what is the vibe here?
And you're keeping your eyes a little more up.
You can follow your sister's trail
out of the corner of your eye, you're the younger sister.
- It's the toots. - It's the toots!
She's just got a sort of crop duster thing.
You're like, I don't have to even look.
Sometimes we call it a musk or a scent glad.
She's just ripping ass all the way down these hallways.
- I don't toot!
- Okay. - That's the most mum thing,
farting so much and then just denying it.
- I do not fart, okay?
- Moms have the most serious farts in the world.
- They really do.
You can hear it across the other side of the house.
- When Grandma has the toots, I just giggle a little bit.
(Erika giggles mischievously)
- But as you're chasing,
you're seeing these signs over and over again
and sort of picking up first just the pattern.
You're seeing the same symbols appearing and you're like,
oh, these are the symbols that Sybil's following.
And then after a while, again,
it's just sort of that passive way
that you don't realize you're reading and you're like,
oh, we must be getting closer to the lab.
It says the lab is just three turns away.
You have the ability to read now, and you know
you are being directed towards whatever a lab is.
Let's go see how our kids are doing.
- (Tim Curry impression) Come up to the lab.
- [Aabria] On the other side of the door-
- (Tim Curry impression) And see what's on the slab!
- Okay.
We can't have Tim Curry and Bryan Cranston in one episode.
- We actually already had Tim Curry.
- Yeah, you are on the other side of this door
in a technicolor room.
The floors are super squishy. - [Siobhan] Great.
- There are giant piles of things to climb
and everything seems soft and bright.
You see letters written on little signs decorating the room,
and it feels simple and bright and clean in here,
and you see 35 other stoats,
most of them a little bit younger than you,
a couple that are a little bit older, and one adult
wearing the same community support bead on his sash,
snowy white with a very high black
on his mittens and on his tail.
He says, oh, we have new students!
Hello, my name's Simon, and welcome to Education.
Would you like to come over here and introduce yourselves?
- I make myself look as big as I can.
- Oh, aren't you a big boy? - No, I'm normal size.
I'm Jaysohn, and this is Lila, and that's my sister,
and she's really clever, and she can already read,
so I don't know if she needs any Education.
- You can already read!
Okay, well, let's see. What does that sign say?
And it's sort of a little sign right by the door.
- Exit.
- It says emergency exit, and it's a little layout.
You're actually looking at a map of this hallway.
- What's nuclear power?
- Nuclear power is what the people that came before us
called the Light.
- Oh.
- And the rest of the students in the class are like, ooh!
We do not know what's happening, but a moment.
Wow, where did you...
Oh, that's right, you can read. Wonderful, yes.
Yes, there is so much we can talk about.
Do you want to come in and have a seat?
Right now, we're talking about where we were
before we were here.
We're kind of just introducing ourselves.
- Can I do a perception check
to see who I think the popular kid is?
- Yeah, please do. - [Siobhan] Great.
- Can I be looking at the map?
- [Aabria] Yeah, give me an investigation.
- I got a 12.
- 12? - Yeah.
- I think the really sad thing to realize here
is you guys came in with just enough standoffish energy,
and the immediate stunt of,
my name is normal size Jaysohn and my sister can read,
you are already the coolest kids in this class.
- Okay, great, well then, I'll look for whatever
is the most sidekick-y kid that I can find.
- The most sidekick-y kid I can find!
- Where is Milhouse?
- [Aabria] There's a dark brown little kit
that looks maybe an inch shorter than you.
- Great, perfect, I sit down next to him
and I sit so cool and I yawn so big.
What's your name?
- I'm Lukas. Hi, I'm Lukas.
- We killed a bear.
- You killed a bear? - Yeah.
- Like a whole big bear?
- Yeah.
- Why? - So we have to do this every day?
- Do what? - He already hates it.
- You've been here 90 seconds.
- Whoa, Jaysohn's hot.
- Jaysohn is bisexual.
- Jaysohn's entering his hot boy era.
- As soon as we walked through that door,
we became teenagers.
- [Aabria] Yeah, probably, honestly.
- Oh, okay! - Mazel tov!
- Oh dang, I have to study my Torah portion.
- But you can read now, so it's fine.
I think we're just supposed to be here until we can-
- Supposed to?
- We gotta come here every morning.
- Who says? - My mom.
- You do what your mum says? - All the time.
Do you not have a mom?
- Yeah, we have a mum, and our dad is dead,
and our mum doesn't know how to tell us what to do.
- That seems really sad, actually.
- Yes she does! (paw-fists thudding)
- Oh no!
(punches flying)
You see little Lukas is like,
whoever wins this fight has my allegiance forever.
- It's going to be both of us!
- I can hear scrapping from inside,
and I'm like, I'm going to pretend that's not them.
- While we're fighting, I'm like, Jaysohn, there's a map!
- After school I think I'm going to get this kid
to tell us secrets.
- What'd you get on your investigation?
- [Jasper] Everything is fine. - I don't remember.
I think my dice rolled. I sneezed on Kevin, so.
- No! - 22.
- Yeah, just scanning down the map,
you do see bathrooms,
emergency exits farther down the hall
that you were moving in, and then all the way
by the emergency exit, the hallway sort of Ts.
Oh, you understand what a hallway is.
That's like a corridor that Sybil was talking about.
- We had those in the old warren. We know what a hallway is.
- Yeah, okay.
- You're saying that to Aabria?
- God looks at you and goes, all right, my bad.
- Straight up Deadpool yelling at text in the margin.
- The yellow text apologizes profusely.
Then you see where the corridor sort of Ts out,
to the left of that, lab.
Laboratory.
I don't know how to say the word. - (silent) We have to go.
- (silent) Yeah yeah yeah. - (whisper) We have to go!
- Hey, Lukas.
- Yeah? You're still fighting and having a conversation.
- You want to ditch? (Erika laughs)
- You see Lukas immediately looks over at the teacher,
who goes, no, don't leave.
I like to listen to what adults tell me to do.
- I'm sorry, who are you? To the teacher.
- Oh, hi. I'm, again, Simon.
I'm supposed to teach you.
- Can you do a forward roll, Simon?
- Yes. Can you?
- Yes. So we're good.
- [Aabria] Do a forward roll. - So we're good?
- Do a forward roll. - I do a forward roll.
- I don't understand why I'm being grilled
by a fellow forward roller!
- Want me to do an acrobatics check?
- [Aabria] Sure. - Great.
- I mean, do you just do a forward roll,
or do you try to show off?
- No, I absolutely try and show off.
- Can I help? - How?
- Okay, remember in episode one,
when he jumped off a rock and I pushed him-
- [Aabria] In a bad way?
- In a bad way, but this time, it's in a good way.
He does a forward handspring.
- You're going to do a performance check with disadvantage,
because you're more of an interrupter than a collaborator.
- Okay, well, I actually do nothing.
- That's not how this works, you made a choice,
and now we're going to see how the world feels about it.
- Okay, well, natural one,
so we need to actually just leave.
- So you're going to make, yeah,
your roll with disadvantage, as your sister attempts to-
- I trip over her and then...
I got a 14.
- Yeah, for whatever reason,
your sister kind of punches you in the baculum.
(punch thuds) - Ow!
- The baculum? - My dick!
- I'm sorry, I thought we were still fighting.
- I'm really clenched when I get out of my thing. (grunts)
- You do the roll perfectly,
but your lungs are empty and your mind is full.
- (pained) Right in the baculum.
- You want to take the wind out of a man,
you hit him right in the baculum.
- Jaysohn's voice just drops.
- Yeah, now you're a man!
- (guttural) I'm a man!
- It's like those whack-a-moles where you hit one
and another pops up somewhere else.
You're like, baculum. Oh, testicles popped out!
- Boop, your balls have dropped. Congratulations.
- Hey now, you touch my baculum again,
you're going to find out-
- What came out of my brother?
- But you still do it, and you're just like, I'm fine.
- So what else could you possibly teach me?
- After all that, still? - There's a moment,
I'm not even going to make you make the intimidation check
because a fellow male stoat just saw you
get absolutely rocked in the junk.
Again, it's like the worst version
of getting hit in the junk
but also when you slam your funny bone
and you're like, that's killed lesser stoats.
He's like, I don't know if there's more I can teach you.
You've got "read" and "take a hit and keep on going".
- Right, so we're going to go.
- Lukas, come on.
- Wait, I'm a part of this? Okay.
Simon can tell my mommy that I'll be back later.
Lukas fully gets up and he runs over to the side
and he grabs a little bindle that's got some snacks in it
and he's holding it in his mouth and he runs behind you.
- Lukas, give me your sandwich.
- Okay! He just hands you a little bag.
- (coughing) Bleh! - It's a good sandwich.
- I'll eat it. - Lukas, try mint!
- If you're going to be in our gang,
you've got to eat some mint.
- Our gang? - Our gang!
- You just hear a little (sniffs) as mintiness comes out-
- It's cleared his sinuses and now he's hot.
- He can talk normal. He's like, whoa, I feel better.
That's all I needed, I can sound like a normal kid now.
Hi, I'm Lukas and I can use all the letters in the alphabet.
- Lukas, where's the (stammering) laboratory?
- I know where it is? - My mom goes to the lab.
- Your mom goes to the lab?
- Mm-hm, that's where she works.
- She works in the lab? What's she do?
- Makes magic?
- What's magic?
- Light.
- Oh yeah, my mom does stuff with Light.
Oh no! He feels his sinuses closing up again.
No, not again!
It was a beautiful dream.
All right, back to where we began.
There will never be enough mint.
Okay, you can lead if you know, but I also know.
- I'll lead. - I also know!
I just go in fully the wrong direction.
- Come on, Jaysohn.
- I think Jaysohn's taking the shortcut to the other mint.
Other lab. Can I have more mint?
- I don't have any more. - I need it!
- We're going this way. - I need the mint!
- Don't yell at me! - Give me more!
- We found a map. - You found a map?
- Wait, so this worked?
- They don't need Education anymore.
- I'm just picturing that poor teacher
in a meeting with his supervisor.
- We're not enrolled. - We're not enrolled!
We don't know what school is! - Being like, well, I know
I was supposed to get those two other kids in the class.
- But you're never going to believe what happened.
That kid got punched in the dick so hard
that I let them leave, and I let them steal another kid.
- The door swings open, I clock eyes with Simon.
I'm just like, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Cool. Education, how'd it go?
- Oh, it was great. Really good, yeah.
I think I might go next week.
- My name's Lukas and I need mint.
- You need bint? - Mint.
- Oh, mint. - Mint! Do you have some?
- What the hell? There's three of them.
- Tiddles gave us the mint. Or was it the other one?
- Chad.
- Olliver? - Chad gave the mint!
- Shut up, Lukas.
We picked the wrong kid. - Okay, whoa.
What do you mean picked?
When you say picked, what do you mean?
- I don't know, Jaysohn just picked one.
- Picked one? - Brought him with us.
- I belong to Jaysohn. - You belong to Jaysohn?
- Yep. - Troubling.
- I belong to my mom and to Jaysohn.
- I'm fucked. Your mum's going to be so-
- No, look, you said I had to get secrets,
and I was like, look, somebody's-
- His mom makes Blue!
- Yes!
- I don't know what Blue is. - The Light.
- Oh. - The magic.
- Yeah, my mom kinds of does stuff like that.
- Okay, so you actually found secrets?
- Yeah, we know where the lab is. Let's go.
- I'll tell you whatever you want for some mint.
I like it. I can breathe all the way.
- He sucks. - I don't suck!
- You can breathe all the way? - I'm so good.
I listened, and the teacher was like, whatever.
- You handed me a sandwich
that was bread and hard boiled egg.
- Have you had bread before?
- No, and it was bad.
- Okay.
- Truly all of Thorn's instincts are to put this child
back in the school, but Jasper is like, no, come with me.
- What are you going to do with me, mister?
Am I a part of your gang or not?
- Well, let's go.
- I don't listen to you, I only listen to Jaysohn.
- Lukas could be your new Beacon.
- Hey, you've got a Beacon now.
- I want to be a Beacon.
- Lukas, can you do a forward roll?
- Hell yeah. - No, he can't.
I know just by looking at him, he can't.
- Damn, four on the die. He just faceplants.
- Okay, we'll work on that. - I'm sorry!
- No, no, no. - I'm sorry!
- We'll work on it. Let me show you, let me show you.
I'll show you. - Please show me.
- Let me show you, let me show you, let me show you.
- The lab is this way. - Okay.
- Okay, I got a 19 that time.
- Oh my god, you're the coolest boy.
- Just like that. - You're the coolest boy.
Excuse me, Jaysohn got hit in the dick bone earlier.
- No, I didn't!
- No, it was amazing. That's why I got...
Ow!
- Does he roll?
- He rolls good now.
I got a natural 20!
He folds in on himself and tucks and hits the ground
and actually does the saddest forward roll.
- [Izzy] Hey, that's a good one!
- And is just sitting on the ground like, ow!
- (deep) Now he sounds like this.
- Lukas, that was really good.
- Thank you. - That was really good.
It wasn't as good as mine, but it was really good.
- I know it wasn't, 'cause my voice still sounds bad.
- Come on, let's go get some mint and then go meet your mom.
- Okay.
- I'll be honest, looks like you're in charge, so let's go.
I'm just going to hang on. Let's go to the lab, eh?
- Hey, Lila, do you know what hierarchy is?
It's like who's in charge of people, and right now,
I think Jaysohn is the boss,
and then you're the second boss, and then I'm third boss,
because I belong to Jaysohn and my mommy, and then you.
- First of all, you've got to stop saying that.
Second of all, Lila's really smart.
- Yeah, do you know what misogyny is?
It's when you assume Jaysohn's in charge,
but actually Lila's in charge
because I was born 30 seconds before Jaysohn.
- Yeah, Lila was born 30 seconds before me,
and she's really clever.
- I don't think it has anything to do with your gender,
and more, he was like, I'm in charge of you,
and I went, yeah.
- So I tell you what to do, but she tells me what to do.
- Well good, now I understand hierarchy.
- We both tell you what to do.
- Sure, okay, so you're the boss, you're the boss,
you're especially my boss, and then you're below me.
- He's trying to get us to like him, you see?
Which means that we have a lot of power over him right now.
- Do we like him? Hold on, take like four steps back.
- I am not going to move.
- Jaysohn, I think you gotta put this one back.
- I think I'm doing a really good job.
- I think you should go back to school.
Your mum's in the lab? What's your mum's name?
We're going to tell her that you were really good.
- And we won't tell her you left class.
- Deception check. Persuasion check.
- I'll give you the help action by being like,
we definitely won't tell your mum.
- Seven. - Don't worry, it's all fine.
- I don't even know if that's bad. Five.
- Okay, well, I'm going to go,
and I'm not going to tell you anything else,
because mint makes secrets.
- What?
- Mint! I can't breathe!
- Simon! Please!
- The door opens up and a little white paw
reaches out, grabs Lukas by the scruff.
- Can we have a new one? - No!
- No! The door slams.
- Right, you found some information. Fantastic.
We are going to do one more thing,
and then we're going back to your mother,
and I am going to have a word with Viola.
- I don't know how I can- - We need to go to the lab!
- So as long as my children
never come to the lab, they're safe.
- Yes, 100%. - Good.
- Where's the magic?
- Hey, Tula!
- What the-
(Izzy improvises a musical sting)
- Yeah, let's have you guys dovetail into each other
in the hallway just before you see a big, heavy steel door.
- What do you think this lab...
Oh, Tula.
- Well! (players saying 'Hi' to each other)
- How are you? - I was parenting.
- Hi! - Sybil!
- [Aabria] I don't know what we're doing. Sybil.
- [Siobhan] Sybil! - Hi!
- We went to the daycare and it was really cool,
and then we left, and I think
we might go back in like a month or something.
- [Aabria] Sure. - How was Education?
- We did it.
- We did it. Actually, we think we did it.
We actually don't need it, but there's other kids there.
That's fun. But then there's a really boring grownup.
- Was Simon there? - Yeah.
- I don't like Simon, he's really...
The thing is, I think I kind of realize now,
now that I've spent more time with your grandmother-
- [Izzy] Did she make you cry?
- No, we actually got along really well.
She holds up her bit of strawberry.
Yeah, I think I just needed discipline,
and Simon doesn't really have that.
He kind of just lets you do whatever,
and then you were very harsh with me
and I went, oh, this is the thing.
The structure is how you show you care.
- Right, because Grandma's so strong.
- So strong, and then Simon just does truly whatever.
- Nice doesn't make it through the winter.
- Lila's backing up to the lab door.
- Sure, this is a heavy steel door,
so it's not going to be the sneak you think it is.
What do you want to do?
- I want to go in here.
- Okay, you get very close to the door.
- No, not that door. Lila. - What?
- Secret. You want to come here?
- Yeah, you come here.
- Okay, so Sybil, who I've been talking to-
- Hi.
- Who works in Resource Allocation,
remember, hunting that giant monster?
Now, we're learning about different places here at Last Bast
and this area is a place
that I think we should probably try to stay away from.
Now, am I wrong, Sybil, or is that about right?
- It's not great, there's just...
You wanted to know kind of what was the deal,
and there was a thing that I...
You know what, I don't understand it,
and no one's explained it to me,
so that's what I think, because everyone's so honest.
Everyone says everything,
but then they don't really say this,
and I don't like when people don't explain things to me.
- Yeah, so you have an instinct
or you have some information.
I totally trust your wisdom. - So let's all go in the lab
and talk about what the thing you have to say is.
- What's the thing that you...
You think that's not a great place for us to be, correct?
- Are you leading the witness?
- I'm trying to get her to speak plainly,
but I'm not trying to lead her.
I'm just saying, when you led us here,
you said there's something you wanted to show us.
- Yes, it's not scary, but it's information,
and I think because no one has shared this information,
and I've never heard anyone talk about it,
that maybe it's scary, because no one talks about it,
and they talk about everything else. You know what I mean?
- Yes, what's the job that's associated with this place?
- This is Technology.
- Okay. - Oh, I like Technology.
It's like that bear.
- So it's not that you know it's bad,
but it's just a place that people don't talk about.
- Yes. - Okay, thank you.
That's really clear. That's really helpful.
- Why don't they talk about it?
- Because not everyone understands,
and there's Technology, and then there's other technology.
- The Light?
- So many layers!
- You saw the prods we were using with the elk, right?
- [Izzy] Mm-hm. - That's Technology,
but we call that technology weapons,
and we don't talk about weapons.
- What's weapons? - Things that hurt people.
- Oh, like Grandma's dick bone?
- Huh? - Like Grandma's dick bone.
- Like my raccoon dick, dear.
- That's...
- The story of how she got it-
- I don't want to know, I don't want to know.
- It's a really good story.
- I'm going to be so honest- - That's my favorite one.
The raccoon survived! - Oh no! Jaysohn!
- [Izzy] The raccoon survived. - And he's just got no bone?
Oh no.
- It's like one of the first stories she told me.
As soon as I joined the family, it was like, here,
sit down, let me tell you a story.
- Ms. Tula, I think you're the scariest thing I've ever met.
Your family. - Oh, us.
- [Aabria] Your mom made a bone come out of the raccoon.
- That's why I think we were brought here.
We were brought here to kill humans for you guys.
- Okay. - Is that what we do here?
- Yeah.
- I mean, if they're building weapons, probably.
That's the thing we're all doing. We're getting ready to-
- That's not an idea that...
Sybil, thank you so much for your help
and for all of your advice.
So, this is associated with Technology,
you work in Resource Allocation,
and then Population Control, Refit, and Defense.
Okay, understood,
Jaysohn, Lila,
I have been hearing
really exciting things about Refit.
- Mom, you're lying to us. - What?
- Mom, you're lying to us. - You're lying.
- Well, so let me rephrase.
What if I had heard amazing things about Refit?
- You don't want us to do something dangerous.
- What if? - Dear, you should leave
the talking sort of things to your sister.
I mean, it's never been one of your stronger suits.
- Well, let's ask Auntie Vi. What do you think?
- Okay, as they're doing this, can I make eye contact
with Lila and then try and stealth into the lab with her?
- I'm not going to do it without telling Mom.
- Well, as you sort of look around and you're looking
for a little stealthy moment, you catch that as you guys
have sort of turned in on yourselves again,
Sybil has backed up and is now over by a little grate
and is just not trying to be sneaky,
but is trying to be discreet and is using her paw
and wedging it in and sort of prying open the screws
to open the grate to get into the lab.
- I'll do my cool lean again.
It worked really well last time.
Pff. Grownups, right?
- Is this for me? - They're crazy.
- This, happening right here? Yeah, okay, that's great.
Hold that, bud. Hands you a big screw.
- Is this metal? This is metal.
- That's metal. They call it steel.
- Mom, I understand what's happening.
We want to go into the lab because, I don't know,
Jaysohn wants to be crazy and I want to kill humans
so that you never, ever have to worry again,
but I know that you don't want me to do anything dangerous,
and also I need you to know that I've had
a big change of heart and I think that Thorn is right
when he says that we need to harness the Blue,
because now I think that the Blue is good.
I know that this is a big change of heart, but I'm a child,
and I think this is good.
- Okay, okay.
I think, hey,
we're tired of hearing about being safe
and this is an exciting new thing
and all of our excitement's up,
so I think what we should do, can we make a deal?
I don't want to rain on your parade or not be fun.
- What's a parade?
- We've got to get through the series.
- I don't want to rain on your line of stoats.
- My favorite song.
- Barbara Stoatsand.
- Barbara Stoatsand!
Can we make a deal that-
- Yeah, if you look over at Jaysohn,
you see that Sybil has now taken two screws
off of the grate and has opened it,
sort of just wiggled it open enough to be like, go in!
- Tula, it's okay.
I'll go with them, we won't go far.
- I want Mom to come.
- I am already on my way into weapons.
- I want to make a deal. - Yeah, thank you. Come on.
- We know that Mom gets really worried about scary stuff.
Uncle Thorn is very, very brave.
- [Izzy] So is Mom. - But we're in a new place.
Thank you, sweetie.
Vi? - Mm-hm?
- Can we all agree that whatever Auntie Viola
thinks is the right thing to do,
that we're all going to agree to go do that, okay?
- Before I make my decision, I feel like you... (sighs)
- [Aabria] Aw!
You're getting double nuzzled.
- So excited for the baby!
- Make a charisma saving throw with disadvantage.
Baby fever takes ahold of you and ravages you.
- Disadvantage? That's a 10.
- God, they're so fucking cute.
How could you deny them anything?
Could you imagine your family, children that look up to you,
and they just want your love and support.
- We're going to take such good care of them!
- [Aabria] This is actually making it worse.
- [Izzy] We're going to babysit all the time!
- Okay, I was won over, and yes, we're going to go in,
but before, I'm going to cast Sanctuary on the children.
- Thank you.
- I'm going to Pass Without Trace everyone.
- And I'm going to cast Bless.
- How many people are you catching with that Bless, son?
- I will do myself, my sister, and both of my children.
- I'm going to look at everyone and say,
just stay close to me.
If you want to move, let me know.
Don't go too far because it'll be easier for them
to spot you if you're further away from me, okay?
Jaysohn, eyes up, yes? Close to me?
You can stay- - Yeah!
- Okay, good, just wanted to make sure. Ava?
- Oh, I'm- - [Aabria] Ava's been gone.
- Okay. - Is Sybil still here?
- Yeah, Sybil's holding the grate open.
- I'm going to go up to Sybil
while these spells are being cast.
I'm just going to hold her arm very quickly and say,
thank you for everything, and sometime,
if you're ever feeling lonely
and you want to talk about Curtis,
I'll talk to you about my kids' father.
I think that that's one of the few things
that helps, is just to talk.
Okay?
Thank you. - Thank you.
Please go in. - Scoot in with my kids.
- Why were you making the cool girl cry?
- Mom doesn't make anyone cry. - Don't start crying.
- It's good to cry. Crying is good, okay?
It's good to cry.
- Mommy, Mommy, Mommy! - Yeah?
- I'm going to wrap my arms around your neck
and be like, Mommy, Mommy!
- Chain reaction. I'm hormonal.
- [Aabria] Oh no! - You need to stop it!
Stop crying.
- I know that you might not like this, but honestly,
just from being here for like a little bit of time,
I think that our family is exceptional, okay,
and that we may be the only ones
who can actually save the world,
because you're the most powerful person
I've ever met in my entire life.
- You're so strong. - And you made us,
and we got to that daycare, and it was like, oh,
these chumps ain't got nothing on us.
- I have to agree. It was a room full of idiots. - The teacher let us go!
- They just let us go. - There was one kid there-
- I punched my brother in the dick and he let us go.
- By accident.
- That is crazy, for sure. - They walked all over this guy.
Honestly, he looked scared of them.
- I still did a really good forward roll.
- I wouldn't be doing this if I thought
that it wasn't going to be something
that would never make you worry ever again.
- Thank you so much for going in. I'm holding this open.
- Sybil, I love you. Come with us.
- I'm holding this open while you're having
a very urgent conversation outside,
and I have bones that were broken today.
- Oh shit, oh goddammit, I'm such a fucking idiot!
- We're going to take a quick look,
and then we're going to turn right back around,
because Sybil needs to go, okay?
- [Siobhan] Yeah.
I'm going to shunt them off with Grandma and Viola,
and just as I do so, I'm going to pull Thorn for a second.
Hi, Thorn. Thank you so much for watching the children.
I'm just going to be very brief
because we only have a second before they come back.
The last thing my children need to be convinced of
is that they are invincible.
I'm certainly not telling them they're invincible.
I understand where you're coming from,
but something is happening here,
and you told me that we have to be prepared for everything.
If we're in the dark, we know nothing,
and if we know nothing, we are not safe.
- Whew, when he's stirring, it's nice.
- Crying, now horny.
- [Aabria] Honestly, love the tears, I love it.
- Who knows? - She's got the range for it.
- We've got this. You've got this.
- For whatever it's worth, I'm not part of this.
- You are. You're always part of this, of course.
- You're in the family now.
- I think you guys are pretty great.
There's a lot going on,
all of us working towards something very big.
We'll look out for them. And Simon is an absolute bitch.
Not super indicative of, that's why he's got the job with kids.
You know what I mean?
- Grandma- - Let's go.
- Grandma is already down the passage.
- If you see one of those spiky weapons,
if you see one of those zappy weapons,
can I have a go with it? - Oh, absolutely, Jaysohn.
- No. I will side with your mother on that one.
I think we should have a discussion
about who gets the zappy weapons.
- But Grandma already said, so no takesies-backsies.
- I put my paw down. - Terrifying.
- I call back behind me.
- Everyone has a plus 10 to stealth.
- Let's go. Give me those stealth rolls, baby.
- [Izzy] Is that in addition? - In addition to your stealth.
- So your stealth, and then you add a 10.
♪ I have plus 19 ♪
Now I'm going to get a nat one.
- [Aabria] Don't tempt the world like that.
- Dirty 20. - [Aabria] Dirty 20.
- 21. We rolled poorly.
- Yes, just a big old seven.
- 17, so 27. - [Aabria] 27.
- 26.
- 10.
- Because you weren't in the AOE for it.
- Nope. - [Aabria] Amazing.
- [Rashawn] I was going to say- - [Aabria] She's took off.
- Absolutely wild. - What'd you get?
- 33.
- This bitch is going to kill us all.
- Clunk, clunk, clunk. - Everybody said we're going,
and I was like, all right, we're going!
I turned around, and nobody was there.
- So you're going down this hallway,
and you are making truly zero noise.
Everyone behind you is sort of covered
with your effect, and then Sybil runs up
and is going to sort of wrap herself around you.
Hi, you're making a lot of noise.
- Should we not be?
- Shh, you've got to use your inside
of a hollow thing that reverberates noise voice.
- I truly do not ever modulate my voice.
- Can you please, if I give you...
Does anyone give you strawberry?
I'll give you a strawberry if you be very quiet
and let me carry you on my back
just for a little bit until we get...
Just have a snack. - In this moment,
I'll envelop Ava in the Pass Without Trace.
- I open the wrapper on my strawberry, and it is silent.
None of the crinkling.
- Yeah, and Sybil will, you can kind of see
the strain in her face as she hoists you on her back
and she gets very low on all fours
and is going at half of your speed now,
but is silent moving through this.
Okay, I'm going to take you, we're going to go out
and then into a cabinet, and then I'll show you the thing.
But be very quiet, because they're working up there.
And she points through a grate,
and you see into this very clean, sterile room.
Everything is white and immaculate
with a giant stainless steel mesa in the center of the room,
and you can see sparks and hear the sounds
of grinding and the tearing into metal
and just work being done,
and I think you can't really see how many stoats
are up there, but you know that there's a sizable number.
But they are working on something very noisy,
so this will be not an impossible task of sneaking through.
- Is there a very congested woman?
- You don't hear anyone talking, but that is hilarious.
Actually yeah, you know what, halfway through,
you just hear the sound of a nose being blown.
- (whisper) That's his mom.
- You make your way through and around.
She pries open the other one.
Put you down.
Eating candy. - Shh!
- And is going to do the same thing
and unscrews screws and hands them to you, Jaysohn.
Perfect, good. And pries open the other side of the grate.
You see, it's probably, let's say,
a 60 foot run of open air in this lab
before there's a little chewed through hole
in the side of the cabinet.
Okay, when you hear a big buzzing sound,
sprint quietly in the hole, okay?
Who's going first?
Okay.
Three, two, one, go!
Yeah, go ahead and give me
a stealth check and an acrobatics check.
- I'll go right behind Jaysohn to make sure.
- And we still have Pass Without Trace.
- [Aabria] You still have Pass Without Trace.
- Thank god. It's another 21 on the stealth. - Perfect.
- And then acrobatics.
Oh boy, that's a nine.
- It's okay, you are simply struggling with the fact
that you were given all of these bits to hold.
- [Siobhan] I'm dangling.
- You hear, as you drop one of the four screws
you were holding hits the ground, and you keep sprinting,
the buzz stops, but you duck into the hole.
Someone looks out and over,
moves back, continues to work.
Who's up next?
- That's a 34.
- [Aabria] Yep. - [Siobhan] Jesus.
- And then 14 plus, what is this, acrobatics?
- [Aabria] Yeah. - That is a 20, dirty 20.
- So the thing is, I think Sybil turns to you and says,
and you're already gone, and the end of your tail
is disappearing into the cabinet.
Who's next? - I got a 31 for stealth,
but a seven for acrobatics.
- I think you're running across and you kick the screw
and you hear it kind of skitter across this hard floor,
and it makes another ding into the cabinet.
You get in, but the next person
is making their stealth check with disadvantage.
Who's next? - I'll go.
- Okay, you get caught in the aura,
so you get a plus 10, but you're rolling with disadvantage.
Give me your stealth check. - Okay, this one was a 19.
That's a 15.
- 15 total? - 15 total. Wait.
- You have a plus 10. - Did you add your plus?
- 17. - Okay, cool. 17 total.
You are just sort of struggling with,
there's a little heat on you and people are looking
and you're running and you're carrying this.
- So I see my daughter go and slip up,
so I immediately sprint across.
- Okay, you got a 17 on your roll,
and I rolled a 17 for perception,
so I want to make this one more die roll.
I'm going to give you one more chance to beat a 17,
but I'm going to put in the Box of Doom
because if they see you,
this whole thing gets blown wide open.
That feel good? That feel fair?
- No, it doesn't feel good, but that is fair.
- [Aabria] Well, no, we'll do that.
- You'll be hearing from my lawyers!
- What's a layer? Hi, buddy!
- There's no possibility
to give a help action here, is there?
- Nope, but I love that you want to try.
- Oh my gosh.
- Point it that way so Jasper can see.
- [Aabria] Yeah, it's the boy! - Welcome to the table.
- This is so cool! - [Aabria] Hi, Doomy!
- My old nemesis.
♪ Hello darkness, my old friend ♪
- What does it feel like to be
on this side of the Box of Doom?
- Scary, I don't like that at all.
- It's really scary, huh? - Get it away, get it away!
- Do I know, I'm trying to beat a 17?
With, this is stealth,
so plus 10, plus 2, so plus 12.
- So you just need a five. - I need a five.
- Just a five, right? God, I don't like this. - That's easy.
I need to beat a five! - Only a one in four chance
that you actually ruin this moment.
Could you imagine?
- Oh, it's a 10! - Oh, thank god.
- Woo! - Still way too low.
Okay!
- You freeze, and all you can do is hunker and wait.
You know if you take another step, it will be sound.
They froze up there, and all you can do is get flat and low
and hope that luck prevails or something happens,
because there's no way to not see you.
You just wait. Everyone waits for a pregnant breath.
And then the buzzing begins again.
You're able to make your way in.
Give me my son!
Old Doomy.
- Is there flashes?
Are there sparks and things as they're working?
- [Aabria] Yeah.
- Can I say my Pass Without Trace is,
as people are running across,
I'm trying to add to the flashes
almost like little sparks to sort of block them from view?
So if people are looking down
at where they are, it's a little-
- I know you think you said a very cool thing,
but you're now talking about
doing a minor fireworks display.
- Oh no, okay, I'm not going to do that.
It was just Pass Without Trace!
I'm just trying to add flavor! Please, please, please!
- The man's just trying to add flavor!
- I was just trying to add flavor!
- What you did is add mint to a society
that thinks cold spicy is not the juice.
- There you go. - I don't like it either.
It's horrible, I'm never going to eat mint again.
- It's just Lila, me, and Sybil left here?
- [Aabria] Yes.
- I'm going to look at Sybil and say, the screw.
Do we need that?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can get it. Do you want to get it?
- No, no, no. I think that's great.
Lila, you go next, and then Sybil,
you get the screw, and I'll come in last.
- Without you?
- Yeah, you're going to go,
and then Sybil's going to be right behind you, okay?
- Do you want me to go with you?
That way, if anything happens, I run very fast too.
We'll get the screw and we'll go quickly.
- Then Mom's going to be here alone.
- I'll be okay, sweetie. It's fine.
- Your mom's wonderful. She's going to be great.
You're going to be great.
- Yeah, it's going to be fine.
- Okay. - She'll run faster
knowing that you're already okay.
- [Brennan] That's true.
- We're going to go on three. One, two...
And she kind of just gives you a little squeeze on your hand
and lets you go so you can run full bore.
Three, go!
Go ahead and give me a stealth check and acrobatics check.
- Stealth is 28.
- Yeah, perfect.
- And then acrobatics is...
15.
- 15 is good. You get through.
I think you start breaking towards the screw that was kicked
and she pushes you into the hole to run over
and grab the screw and then turns and points back
where you're still waiting and goes, come on, now, now!
- She grabbed the screw, though?
- Yeah, she grabbed the screw. - Okay, great.
I am gonna go.
I have disadvantage on stealth,
and the lower of my two numbers is a 17,
so that's a 31 on stealth.
- Let's go! - [Jasper] Okay, whew!
- Misleading.
- [Jasper] You buried the lede on that one, Brennan.
- Misleading! - [Erika] Brennan, why?
- Acrobatics is an eight.
- It's okay, you are so stealthy that as Sybil
picks up the screw she's like, whoa, you got here so fast!
Go, go, go!
So it's just sort of a tumble of the two of you
getting pushed through the door.
Sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!
- I think I was projecting bravery for my daughter,
and then when I realize and I look back
at an empty, drafty tunnel behind me, I go, no, no!
- It's a bit of a scramble. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
- I don't like being alone. - I get that. Okay.
And she walks over. You all did so good, you were great.
Thank you for holding the screws.
- Sorry I dropped one.
- You only dropped one, that's crazy.
- Impressive, honestly. - Good job, Jaysohn.
- I don't think I could have held them all,
so I was giving them to you and I was like, oh no,
I'm putting it in your hands, but then you're great,
so you did it, and it was great.
- I'm in love with you.
- Aw, thank you. That's really nice.
- Girlfriend!
- You know what, it's okay, bud.
Can you help me pull out this tape recorder?
- Do I hear wedding bells? - Tape recorder?
- Yeah. - Yes. What is that?
- I'm going to show you. - [Siobhan] Okay.
- Are there really bad people in here?
- What does that even mean? - Are we about to, like-
- You don't know what a tape recorder is.
- Izzy's asking!
- Sweet. Watch the movie, Izzy.
- Wow!
- Never. They're in suits.
- She gently places the screws in a little pile.
You come over and help her carry a small tape recorder,
and you see that right before she hits play, oh god!
And goes and rolls this big wheel
that seems buried on the side of it
and rolls it down so the volume is incredibly low.
- [Wenabocker] I've actually never used one of these before.
Hello, my name is Robert Wenabocker.
I'm the lead engineer here
at Warren Peace Memorial Nuclear Power Plant.
Hey guys, give me five minutes.
I just gotta log it.
The time is currently 18:48,
and at approximately 5:17 today,
this facility registered a loss of coolant accident
in reactor Charlie.
At 11:20, all plant personnel were notified via intercom-
- Oh, hold on. I'm so sorry.
Then she disappears again, finds a second tape,
and you see her slowly and laboriously load it in.
- Is that the monsters?
Is that what the monsters sound like?
- [Brennan] Do we understand this language?
- You do.
- [Wenabocker] Hello, this is Dr. Wenabocker.
It is 4/21/62 at 8:11.
The LOC logged on the 18th has proven difficult.
Our structural engineers have noted
significant integrity loss surrounding reactor Charlie.
Now, this integrity loss may result in repeated incidents
of increased severity if left untreated.
We are not doing that.
We are handling things now
with the repair materials on hand,
and we should have this remedied within the-
- The tape just kind of stops there.
- Who's Charlie?
- I don't know, but I've seen the word reactor.
- [Izzy] Where?
- If you go through...
You can read, yeah? I'll drop you a map tonight.
I found a couple places, and these are the only places
that are sealed shut that we can't go, because even the lab,
if we had knocked on the door,
someone would have come and let us in and talked to us.
But the places marked reactor are sealed.
I don't know what's in there, but I think-
- You think it's a weapon?
- Whatever 'Wenabocker' is, something bad happened there,
and every time I've tried to ask,
no one's as friendly when I ask about that,
or they don't know either.
- I didn't understand any of it,
but he sounded really stressed out.
- At first he was like, blah blah blah,
I'm doing nothing, and something kind of bad happened.
In the second one, he was saying stuff, and it was worse.
I don't know what it means.
- Lila understands.
- Lila, tell me if this tracks for you, all of you.
Something bad happened to these monsters, these humans?
- Humans.
- And they're no longer here.
- They're coming back. - How do you know?
- No, that's what we're doing here!
Everything we're doing, all of the Defense,
making sure we have supplies,
building technology and weapons,
it's because the First Stoats told us
that they drove them off, but they were going to come back.
- The things that were here before were the monsters?
The two-legged monsters
were the things that were here before?
- What did they do to us? - Well, they killed our dad.
- That's why we have to be ready.
- Something bad happened. They deserted this place?
They were driven out? - By the first ones?
- They can't stand the Blue.
They can't live with the Blue.
- Like I told you before, when the Blue was there-
- So if they can't live with the Blue,
then why have the First Stoats said
that they're coming back? - How do they know?
- Because, well I've seen some-
- That's what you would tell someone
to make sure that they stay in line,
that they're living in fear that something will come back.
- I'm becoming a little bit upset for a moment.
- I'm sorry. - [Brennan] That's all right.
- You're becoming upset?
- Because we were led here with the understanding, correct,
that we were trying to find places that were here
that were unsafe, and we mentioned the lab
and that people don't talk about it,
and that was a little bit concerning,
but what we've just discovered in this moment
is that Last Bast
at large is not safe.
Monsters are on their way here, correct?
- I think...
I think the truth is,
the monsters were always going to be coming back,
and there's a lot of people...
There's a lot of stoats that got here
because something bad happened.
Something showed up and ruined where they lived,
so everyone's fallen back to here.
- So the reason this place is so large
is because the First Stoats didn't build it.
Stoats don't build, so we're not in a rabbit warren,
we're in a monster warren.
- Yes.
- Yes, but there's nowhere safer.
There's no rabbit hole or tree that's safer than this.
- That's not true, that's not true at all!
- Shh, sweetie. Please.
- She's making me upset. - I know.
- She's not understanding, we're all in danger.
We were supposed to be safe, but now we're not.
- Viola! - What!
- We've had this discussion before. Do you remember?
There are several times, if something attacks the camp,
something is near the camp, what do you not do?
Run around telling every single stoat
or badger or something that there's something coming.
We have to organize, be thoughtful in the way
that we approach these situations, you know that we do.
Tula, I understand that this is terrifying
and we have to prepare, I'm not saying that we don't,
but we cannot start panicking now
and running around telling thousands of stoats
that something terrible is happening.
We have to be- - Okay, focus.
I just told you something terrible is happening.
- I wasn't aiming that at you. I apologize.
- My understanding is that all of the stoats
of Last Bast know this to be true.
This has been disseminated amongst-
- That's why we're all working so hard.
- They're all working so hard to fight monsters.
- What are a bunch of monsters
to all of us and everything we can do?
- Sorry, didn't we already have this discussion?
Didn't they tell us when we were like, oh,
what rabbits did you take this warren from?
And they were like, oh, it's humans.
So we've already heard this information.
- [Aabria] Correct.
- So I think that Tula didn't hear.
I think for her, there was a lot going on.
- [Aabria] For sure.
- It was like mythology and a big story.
But now it's like a person she trusts has been like, yeah,
they're coming back, so I think it's clicked for her.
- Sure, sure, sure. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Of course they want to come back.
We have so many rabbits here,
and we have Blue and we have- - What's Blue? Oh, the Light.
You call it Blue. It is kind of blue.
- This is an incredible safe place,
and a place that we can use the surrounding things
in the area and save them here for so many stoats.
What other warren is going to have a...
Thussand? A thussand of stoats.
- Several thousand stoats.
- They know the Light better than we do.
What if they know something that we don't know?
- They don't know the Light better than we do.
- They don't like the Light. I've seen it.
That day that I saw them traveling in that not bear-
- Not bear? - Yes, yes.
We saw a bunch of chipmunks inside of a bear,
and they were pulling it,
so I saw a bunch of them inside a not bear, and they-
- She puts her finger to her lips and then yours,
and then you see with her free hand she casts Minor Illusion
and creates the image of a truck, four wheels, flat.
Is this your not bear?
- That is what took my Ken.
- Mom, what killed Dad?
(Brennan sighs)
- Geoffrey died
where I couldn't find him until he was already gone.
Was there proof of what killed him when I got there?
- I think your best understanding
wasn't from anything you saw on him,
but that when you heard he was in danger,
some of the stoats he was traveling with
ranging farther and farther out,
he was in a field of clover
at the edge of where you know safety lies.
Then you heard thunder on a clear day,
and when you finally got to him, he was down.
- Sweetie.
I don't know.
Poison dust, thunder on a day without clouds,
hollow bears that move without lifting their legs.
I don't know what these monsters can do,
but I know that your father wanted to know,
and when I found him,
I wasn't even clever enough to know how they had killed him.
So you'll forgive me if I am a little bit worried,
and I would like people to listen to my sister,
because she is absolutely right
when she says that whatever we have discovered,
these monsters were clever enough to make,
and they do know it better than us.
No matter how much we are obsessed with it,
confident that we can harness it,
the sky and the water, that's the Blue.
That's where we come from.
For all we know, where it comes from is these monsters.
So I don't know where this confidence comes from,
but if confidence could keep you alive,
then Geoffrey would still be here.
So we need to figure out what we're going to do,
because if the plan is to fight an endless wave of monsters
with the scraps we have collected from the forest,
then you can count me out.
And as a stoat that is about to be a father,
you should count yourself out!
- Tula, there's nowhere else to go.
- Yes, there is. Just keep running.
- Where? - I don't know where.
Higher ground, cleaner air, farther away.
- There's thousands of stoats here.
They have come from every direction.
- Mum, I don't want to keep running.
- I'm sorry.
I know I was born here.
But I believe from everything I've seen
that there is nowhere
that they can't go,
but there's something here that we understand.
Understanding. We can push them back.
And we can stay safe.
- There's always something unknown and scary,
monsters in the dark trying to get you,
but when you find something in people
that can help push that back,
you hang onto that.
Walmer and all of the rest of them,
they trusted in the sky and the water and that kind of blue.
In our family, we trusted in our Blue,
and it got us here alive and it fed your children.
So sometimes, even if things can be a little scary
and you carry the fears
that your past have taught you,
you have to learn a new culture, even if ours is better.
- You're telling me to embrace change?
- Well, I would never say it like that!
- Please help us.
- Well,
sometimes in life,
when you find out that a thing is better
in another direction,
you have to-
- You got it. - ...do a slightly
different thing!
- [Aabria] Catch the blood, catch the blood.
- You've got to do a thing that you're not used to!
So, well,
Lila here learned read.
Jaysohn here now has testicles.
- Huh?
- Grandma, can you teach me...
Can you teach me how you killed that rabbit?
Can you teach me how to do that?
- Yes. Yes, I can.
I've never been so proud.
- Best grandma in the world.
- Tula, the children want to stay here.
Viola, where are you going to go
that has readily available rabbits
and people who know
bear...
Not bear?
- They're called trucks. I can show you one.
- I want to see. I want to see all the technology.
I want to see all the weapons.
And I want to meet the First Stoats.
- Okay.
Okay.
- Mom, I'll do whatever you think we should do.
- Yeah, me too, Mum, but I do want to stay.
- They're good kids, Tula,
and you are their mother.
- I'm just going to touch my heart.
What's your heart telling you?
I know you want to make me happy.
But one day, I won't be here anymore,
and you're going to have to listen to your own heart.
What's it telling you to do?
- (whisper) Don't tell her about killing the monsters.
She's not going to want to hear it.
- (whisper) I can hear you say that, so I know she knows that now.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- We have someone here who's...
I'm really good at telling when someone's not being honest,
and we have someone here who, besides being really cool,
has been really honest with us and took us
and showed us part of her world that she wasn't supposed to
and asked us for help,
and whenever we've asked you for help,
you haven't ever hesitated.
- If we're going to do it, we might as well go all the way,
do everything we can.
- Really quick,
there was a moment that happened
just a few seconds ago, so I'm going to ask for a roll.
I need you to make an insight check against a lie
that your mother has told you.
Go ahead and make it.
Deception.
- Insight?
- [Aabria] Yeah.
- 16.
- 11.
- So with a 16 versus Tula's 11,
you realize something
that sort of knocks the wind out of your lungs.
Not every lie is about the words you say that aren't true.
There are lies of omission, and your mother,
your fiercest friend and protector in this world
who has turned the shape of her life
around you and your brother to protect you both,
who supported you through all of your worry
and wonder about the world,
something important, something foundational to her,
is a lie.
She's lying to you.
- Do I know what it is?
- No, and that is where we're going to end
tonight's episode of Burrow's End.
- You've been lying?
My mum is a liar? - We'll see you next time.
- Mama!
- [Aabria] ♪ Mama! ♪ - She killed Geoffrey!
- No.
- She shot him in the face! - She slit his throat!
- That was the thunder from the clear sky!
- Tired of you hanging out with these monsters.
Pow, pow, pow! Pow, pow, pow!
- She pulled out an entire gun.
♪ He had it coming, he had it coming ♪
♪ He only had himself to blame ♪
- Huge theater kid energy here.
- You mean to say that we're new here
and nobody's paying attention to us?
- I think a lot of people are paying attention to us, Mama.
Maybe too many.
- You are full of secrets.
Didn't you tell someone here
about the dust that killed your warren?
- Yes.
- What do you think caused the dust?
- I'd like to go see truck.
- Our grandma's really strong. - Shh!
- Just like me.
- If these humans come back- - Oh my god!
- Are there multiple plans? Is it one big thing?
- This is what you wanted to do, right?
We're going to find the Blue
and use it to fight the monsters.
- Oh. - What?
- I'm the Director, one of the First Stoats.
- You met one of the First Stoats?
- There are four of us.
I appreciate your interest in the leadership
of this community. - Hm.
- Hm? - Hm?
- Don't know what life there would be
if I couldn't say your name.
- I don't think everybody's quite ready for things,
especially Tula.
- Everything I've ever believed could be some lie
fabricated by these monsters.
- What do you think might happen
if you keep asking a mean person questions?
- Kill us. - Yeah, that's a good guess.
Lila, that's a good guess.
- Several stoats with copper wire
wrapped around their sashes always have eyes on you.
- Very, very curious. - We have to pivot.
- I suppose that we should go meet Charlie, yes.
- We've got to find the reactor.
Keep them safe. - I will.
- [Brennan] You know that they are lying.
- I didn't tell them where you live.
They know where you live. - Where are we, Tula?
- [Izzy] I think we broke a lot of rules
and asked too many questions.
- [Brennan] This place is not safe.
- Then you start getting to spaces and places
where it's dusty and there are no longer stoat footprints,
and you feel it.
- Oh my god! I'm so stressed! - Welcome to the dome.
(moody electronic music)