The Ringer-Verse - RingerQuest: The Encounter at San Veyre!

Episode Date: September 9, 2026

Wasting no time at all, the chaotic-but-lovable crew of five adventurers pick right back up where they left off in the last episode. Together they investigate who might be behind the assassin master plan, fail to flirt with women, and might even find themselves at a high society ball! (00:32) Campaign recap (1:10) Act 1: Into the Black Rose Tavern (55:16) Act 2: The Concordance Ball (2:00:43) Outro Directed by: Aleya Zenieris and Steve Ahlman Hosted By: Steve Ahlman Featuring: Charles Holmes, Mallory Rubin, Joanna Robinson, Van Lathan, and Jomi Adeniran Audio Producer: Devon Baroldi Production Support: Jacob Cornett, Ryan Todd, Chris Thomas, Scott Lee, and Kevin Cureghian Set Design: Jonathan Ratliff Supervising Producer: Arjuna Ramgopowell Video Production and Editing: Aleya Zenieris and Matthew Ciampa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Come on, man. It's a tough recap. Oh, my God. Don't blame the hefty queens. Can't blame the hefty queens. We will never blame the hefty points. They found themselves in the city and a kind of unwelcome reunion for Odati Tibido. And we're now entering the Black Rose Tavern.

It's now pretty welcoming that you can see. But let's enter the threshold and enter the Black Rose Tavern. Wonderful. All right. So when you enter the Black Rose Tavern, it's actually surprisingly clean, beautiful even. Very black, very elegant table. Very what, Steve? Black painted elegant tables.

He said, hey, Steve, I'm glad. I went out of here. It took us 25 seconds. 45 seconds. Steve was thinking back to Selma. It was very clean Very beautiful even Very black

Freaky ass Surprisingly eloquent Her name Her name Reislele Yeah Name Laquisha Yeah Very like

Upscale Like you hear music But it's What kind of music? Roll for rap All right It's not good rap Yeah

They got big Sean You're not I played Jack Harlow in his baby It's the first clean and articulate tavern. Yes. It's why you can't let it take a break. He can't.

All right. It's surprisingly upscale. Why is it got to be a black rose? That's my question. Why not be a black rose? That's crazy. You know, because there's danger. Oh, whoa.

Steve, that's what the fuck I'm talking about. Get them off you, Steve. Right. Next time to ask you to say, why I got to be a black rose? Say, because it can't read. Oh my gosh Is there a white rose tavern That we're not allowed to be in

Alright Alright take something Tight up Tight up He gave him a lot of me During the break We'll say that A lot of me during the break

As you enter the tavern Guys I'll give him a second Oh Cheers As you enter the tavern A few things catch your eye There is a beautiful bartender polishing a glass that's somehow already clean.

There is a hooded figure playing cards in the corner. There's a bard playing very elegant music on stage, but the place isn't rowdy. There's about 30 people in this place. It's not too full, but it's just occupied enough. And there are, there's a smattering of people that are talking and chatting. And what would you like to do? do. Is the bartender hot?

You already know. We were all wondering is the bartender hot. Oh yeah. Absolute smoke show. Okay, great. I would like to see Jomi and Mallory

battled to seduce the barterbury. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who said anything about battle? Who said anything about battle? Tag team? Listen, we're all family. Challenges.

Oh, we're all. Okay. Are we that kind of family? We'll Joe? I approach the bar. Here's what it is. We go to the bartender. We see whoever they're feeling.

If it's me, I need the lob. If it's you, I'm throwing you to lob. It's teamwork, baby. We don't have to... Whoa, let's get our minds out of the gutter. I feel like we should go to the bartender and be like, hey, what do you know about our daddy? You've seen anything out of the ordinary around this year.

And then... Just let you guys know. I get all of this stuff. I'm very... I'm uneasy, man. I don't want these people to recognize. Well, you dress this an assassin. We should probably focus on the nation.

But bartenders are like a great source of information. Yeah, they are. They know the whole texed out. Do you think anyone's... Everybody was coming and going for a beverage? Do you think anyone notice a giant bag of body parts that we're dragging with us? Oh, were you still dragging a giant bag of party parts? Yeah, we have to.

Yeah. There are. You need that? We're going to put them in like a luggage. So small rewind. When you get into the bar, there's like another like, Coke check guy that comes in. that comes in another like 10 foot tall muscle bound or,

surprisingly. Am I checking the bag? Is it actively bleeding? Would you like to check your bag, miss? Nice voice work, Stephen. I don't know who that is, but who are you? Yes, I would like to check this bag. Please don't not open it. And if it starts dripping blood,

will you just put a towel underneath it or something like that? Hey, you know what's having you're in? I don't ask any questions. We'll take that for you. There you go. Oh, interesting. Thanks. All right, now let's... And oh, he gives you the ticket. I would like, I want to know what Talia thinks we should do.

Oh, man, I'm about to fuck shit up in this place. Who's got answers? What are you trying to do? We should talk to the bartender. We should talk to the hot bartender. So who wants to talk to the hot bartender? All right, I got a 17. I'm already rolling up on him.

What do you know? What have you seen? All right, so are you literally just walking up to a bartender and saying, what do you know who have you seen? All right, you see me out. Yes. Yes. Like, what's going on?

All right. But I feel like he's a little A little more tag. You ever see that way How to do it? Huh. You ever see how they do it in the movies? They walk up and they play it real cool.

And then they say, hey, what's going on? What goes on around this town? And you got to get the bartender in with a little charisma And then you got to hit them with the question. Okay. So my final answer, who's coming up to this bar to talk to this? Well, I rolled to 17. Tali is a 16 charisma.

Plus three. So I got a 16. She got 19-Kritish. I'm raising the shit out of. Okay. She comes up to you. She looks up. This is a...

Hey, girl, how you living? This is an elvish woman. She's polishinging with that. An elvish woman? Oh, man. Is she bad? Damn. 20 years.

What's her name? We got to focus on a mission. We got to focus on a mission. How much that tuition cost you, girl? Come over here and ride with me. I got two noble queens. Wait, so Tully is like, don't hit on the bartender. And then Tully's like, I don't know.

She immediately hits on the bartender. I can take you away. I'm going to take you away from this world. And she's like, that's a funny way to ask for a drink. Big girl, tell me what you know, all right? We've seen some assassins around these parts. Like, what do you know? What have you learned?

Sorry, do you know what bar you're in? This is the assassin bar. First of all, it's not a bar. Uh-oh. Everyone here is an assassin. Danger, danger, danger, everyone here is an assassin. Okay.

Is the bard an assassin? Sorry, honey, you must be new. What's your name? All right. Relax with the attitude. Oh, wow. Attitude. First name, Talia, last name, Bloodhart.

Recognize. Midnight age. I need you to roll a charisma check for this. This disgusting display. Ooh, that's it. That's a six plus three. That's a nine. That's not bad.

Okay. Okay, all right. So if you've talked to a woman, you've talked to a woman bar before, Charles. Yeah. Can you tell when you're like losing it, when you're losing her in the conversation? Oh, that's such a bad feeling. You're kind of losing her a bit. All right.

She's got that like, uh-huh. Roll for dexterity. You have to trauma. 19. Dexterity for what? Hell yeah. Dexterity for what? But a conversation.

No, no, no. You don't, you don't dexterously use a conversation. A tongue can be dexterous. Yeah. That's not. Okay. That seems aggressive. That's very aggressive.

Very aggressive. What are you trying to ask her again? You've got to learn the secrets. Are you, like, are you actually asking her a question? You've seen assassins. What are you talking about? Have you seen anything untoward in these parts, madame? I like the surprise.

Okay, she, like, literally chuckles. She, like, pours you a little glass, and she's like, I'm going to go over there and, like, goes to, like, clean up the bar on the other side. Leo, damn. You're up. You're up, Leo. Okay. It's about to be a disaster.

So you walk up to the bar two? I wrote a six plus two. Six plus two for charisma? I just want to, can I get a drink? Like, you can just talk to this person. Oh, can I like a drink? Great. Can I get your strongest mead?

Okay, wonderful. She pours you a drink. It's like, all right, that'll be too silver. Two silver. I got two silver. I throw her like a nice little gold piece. Keep to change. Okay.

So you've effectively thrown a $100 bill down on a drink that costs $5. That's fine. That's fine. That's what you do, though. That's hot. Yeah. We need information. That's fine.

Oh, okay. What else can I get you? Oh, Leo. You know, another time. Leo. Close. Close. We got to get the information, guys.

Yeah, get it however do you. Talk to the girl. She's looking at you. She's waiting. I'm not freezing. Leo. I want to get the information. Am I still?

She's enough. You're an elbow. That's what I'm saying. But like I got a. She's enough. You're an elf. Is it the mission or my mission? Your mission?

Your mission. It's my mission. What you did last time? All right then. What's going on? Have you seen so much? What's what? We're doing good.

We're doing good. You know, it's busy? It's not exactly busy season, but we're doing fine. That's what's up. Okay, how long you work here? Oh, about like six months? Not too long. Six months?

Let's not bad. So where are you from? Like, where are your family from? From out of town? This was like, you know, just a better option. I was going to school. Oh, what were you studying? Oh, man.

Biology. biology? Yeah. You go like, do you want to be a doctor or like, like, you know, trying to help people? What's going on? I mean, listen, we all got to pay the bills somehow. And thank you again. You've been, you've been nice. Thank you so much for the tip. Yeah. Hey, listen. Is there anything that I, is there anything that you need while you're,

while you're in here? I do. Seriously. I need some information, but like, I was maybe, I don't know, this place seemed kind of busy. Is this somewhere else we could talk privately? Okay. Well, I'm still on a shift. Yeah, I mean, we can wait. I can wait. You know, I got time. That's fine. Now, wait a minute. Are you, like, are you just trying to, are you trying to say that just to like, you know.

Baby, look. I get that. But, like, you seem like you actually have some business here. Man, this is a business bar. Get to this. Nah, man, listen. How about this? What time you get off?

Okay. Hour and a half? Indeed. That's always the question. I can wait an hour and a half. Listen, you handle your business. I handle my business. But I'll be back in 90 minutes.

Yeah. And I'll, and we can go to another bar. Okay. Go to your place. We can figure it out. But I'll see you. Okay. I gotta go to the bar.

She gives you a little wink, and then that's it. You didn't get any infringe, but. I gotta go to the bar. Okay. Daddy's turn. This girl's working a lot now. I got a two. Okay, so this is the charisma roll?

Yeah. Okay. Again, you can just talk to somebody. We can hypnotize. Okay. Hey, whoa, whoa. Does the two mean he drools on you and pours a drink in your loss? I mean, it's not like catastrophic, but like, you know, I have to see what he tries to do.

Okay, so How many gold coins do you have? Oh, you need one? You all have 100. I have 100. I have 100 gold coins. Okay, so can I have a drink, please? Yes, what do you have?

I have a sparkling mead. Great. Well, first of all, is that what you recommend? Sparkling need? I mean, like, there's this sparkling meat, but I think there's also Odules that's like really good. Odul sparkling meat?

Yeah, yeah. Let's try that. Okay, hear what you pour as you want. She gives you like a little taster. Yeah. Gives you that. A lot, very refreshing. All right, sure.

I'll pour you a half. Great, there you go. Two silver. Here, here's two silver. Here's 300 gold. Three hundred gold. If you can answer a couple of questions for me. Okay, she, like, this is enough money to, like, legitimately scare somebody, but she's like,

okay. Yeah. So here's the deal. I need to know basically who comes. in and out of this place. I'm here. I'm new. I'm not sure the way that it works.

There is some business I might be conducting here. What kind of place is this? Who comes in and out of here? If I needed to learn something, who would I talk to? Okay. And she's a little uneasy. Mm-hmm. She brushes the pile of 200 gold back to you.

And she's like, keep the money. Keep the drink. I think the person that you want to talk to is corn over there in the corner. Corrin over there in the corner. The guy with the cards? The guy with the cards. Guy with the cards.

You're going to want to talk to him. I don't know what this is, but let's not worry about that. Thank you very much. I apologize for my friend. All right. Which one? I thought Leo did a great job.

All right, so now we have to talk. But I don't want to talk to corn. You don't want to talk to corn? I think right whiskey should. So if I talk to court, describe the person that you're coming up on, like, foot and figure,

he's just, like, kind of, like, doing some, like, little card, like, tricks by himself. Like, he's just, like, doing, like, a little solitaire thing. Like, he's, buying lonesome. He's not bothering anybody.

I got to talk to whiskey real quick. Okay. Whiskey, I can't go talk to this guy. You know, like, Leo, we're going to lose Leo in 90 minutes when he takes the bartender out to the hotel. Yeah, we're on a clock.

I can't go talk to this guy. You need to talk to this guy. This guy might make me if I go over there and talk to him. Can't risk it. Can't risk it. Guess what? I'm going to step up for you.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Family. Okay. So you want to approach, uh, Corinne? I'm walking forward. Okay. In one hand, I have Scotch supported in the baby Bjorn.

And in the other, I have my spell book. Okay. Which has four books inside of it? Uh, four different spells. Damn. Four spells. Yes. Okay.

But I don't think I need those quite yet, though I see how they might come in handy. Mm-hmm. I do think it is time to use detect thoughts. Okay. Let's not fuck around anymore. We're on the clock. So what do you want to do? I want to know what this guy knows, what Corin and his cards know.

Okay. So in a conversation, ask the DM, can I read their surface thoughts? All right. So first you've got to start a conversation with him. So how do you want to approach him? Do you want to say hello, strike up a conversation? I'm going to ask him to deal me in. So he in the midst of his

Like, little Hot. Yeah. Little car thing looks up. Sensual! Well, he actually, actually, deal me in, Cori. That's the way to go about it. Actually, actually, he doesn't look up because you're three feet tall.

I'm three foot five. Three foot five. Three foot five. Yeah. And he's like, oh, hey there. Yeah. Didn't expect anybody to join me. What's your name?

My name is Rive, and my friends call me whiskey. This is a sketch. Yeah. Thanks for asking. I just learned it. It comes in pucat. You know? Oh yeah.

It does come in. It comes in. It comes in. I'm getting one. You are getting one? A whole kind of whiskey. Yep. Oh, wow.

Can, uh, can you deal me in? Can you deal me in? What's your name? Your name's Corin? You're the famous Corinne? Heard about you over there. Heard about you over at the bar. What's the, what's the, what's the, what I'm going to do.

The people that tend to learn about me want to want to make some money. You here to make some money? Oh. I'm always here to make some money. Have a seat Let's go On the top of the game, bro Take a seat

He deals you in But basically Yeah What's a What's a What's a Um He's gonna give you

Like a variation of like blackjack Basically that you guys are gonna play Okay And Where's the rest of the party Like can they give me I mean

What do you guys want to hang out This is gonna basically Be like a one-on-one That we're gonna do Jomey's at the bar probably Um Can Max He's laying in the cut

Probably just taking him the drink Can Max Transform into a bat And perch on my shoulder To give me like Bat advice Roll a quick wisdom check up here

Me I mean Whoever wants to consider Transforming into a bat Oh boy So one Okay well you look around and you're like Maybe being a bat

Maybe changing from a person into a bat Into a crowd full of people is a good idea Bat Bat So you transform So you're a person that were standing at a bar And then poof you become a bat That's right.

Okay, I guess I gotta. Yeah. Oh, wow. All right, great. Nobody notices. Great. Amazing. Nobody notices.

What do you want to do as you're a bat? Perch on whiskey's shoulder. Thank you. Okay. So as you're sitting down a bat like zooms to your shoulder. And just like, and then the corn's like, whoa, Jesus Christ. Don't worry about a corn. One of years?

Yeah. I see you got a cat. So I'm guessing you're one of those animal types. I don't know what that. means. All of the creatures of the realm are my type. All right, cool. All right, well, whatever. So he's on face. So he's like, all right, so what do you what do you, uh, what do we care to make money off of today?

Information. Currency of information. Interesting. Is what I'm after. Okay. Secrets? What can you tell me about Larry the first? King Larry. How's his rule going? Is it? Right now. And he's, okay, interesting.

He fucked you up, didn't it. He considers that. No, no, he considers that. And he's like, you don't know how to handle that. You're like, how's Larry's rule going, huh? Yeah. Yeah. How's King Larry doing right now? What's the state of the realm?

So you haven't been around lately? I'm a forest gnome. So, you know, a trip to the big city. I'm new in town. It's a milestone for me. Uh-huh. And, you know, what I always try to do first is learn about a place and learn about it's people so that I know how to make the most of my experience.

On the ground reporting. I'm a traveler, and I'm a citizen of the world. Well, the story is one thing. The truth is another. The truth costs money. Time to use it tech thoughts on you. Okay. Whiskey focuses on the minds around her and can read the surface thoughts of a creature

she can see within 30 feet. Great news. You're like four feet away. Great. And I have dark vision. Great. I really need to put you guys a more darker. 61 feet away from you.

Let's see. I can learn about emotional state reasoning, what looms largest in... Okay, great. I can learn what looms largest in this person's mind. And I think after asking about King Larry in the state of play in the land,

the thing that would lose largest in Koran's mind, as you just said, is the story's one thing, the truth is another, thinking subconsciously about what the truth is. And now I'm going to know that. I'm going to be able to glean that with detect thoughts.

Okay. What's the truth? Okay, so as you detect his thoughts, basically, like, the things that pop up your mind are, it feels like you're like pulling like a cloud out from like a, like the sky to like reveal like a picture. And the things that is inside of his mind is like he's thinking about if he's going to be found out or made or discovered because there's the like a prevailing

thought. He's just like, oh God, another person asking me about him. Oh boy. Why is it going to, why, like this better not come back. to me. Like, it was very clear that it wasn't supposed to come back to me. Okay. King Larry definitely hired this dude to hire the assassins. So you can tell that he is worried. There's no, like,

real information that you can glean from it, but there's more about the fact that he now knows that you must know something that you're not supposed to. Okay. Can I unbat? You also don't know his thoughts.

Only Rye knows. this. Okay, so I need to excuse myself and update the group. Well, you're gonna get up right now. You don't want to do that. You don't want to give up. Yeah, you want to give up the game. How long does the tech thoughts last? Does it not say? One minute. One minute. So I can learn more. You can. But you got to you also, I'm gonna ask the question. The truth is gonna just. Mallory. Yeah. Did you see the dead zone? Did you see the dead zone? Did you see the dead zone? Yeah. So in the dead zone, he shakes somebody's hand, he touches them. Yeah. He just gives

like one image. Yeah. And then he's like, oh, Like he shakes, what's his hands at the end, and he sees a mushroom cloud. And he's like, this guy's going to fucking become president and blow up the world. So then right after that one image, you got to make a snap decision out of what you do. Okay. In that movie. But I have a minute. So I can ask more questions, see more images.

Then I can use my, I can talk to small beasts. I can very quickly pass that along to Max and Batform who can go and form the party. Yes. And I don't have to blow up our spot by getting up from the car game. So you got to keep asking him questions. Well, I'm in the bad room. So he's always like, All right. Stories is one thing. Truth's another. The truth usually costs money.

How do you actually respond? What's the truth? And then you think what you just thought. So that's where we are where you're like, oh shit, this better not come back on me. And I think... You have to find a graceful exit from the situation. Well, I want to ask about O'Dady, but how? How to ask about O'Dady without asking about O'Dady? Right. What is the current state of the succession?

Larry's succession? Yes. Who's currently in line? to inherit the throne here in this great metropolis. No, not at all, not at all. You know, I'm a researcher, knowledge is my passion, so I like to learn about current events and also history so that I can best appreciate the lands that I'm currently in.

Can you give me a performance check with that? Because it's not a lie, but like you're trying to like obfuscate like 14. 14? Yeah, and what should I be adding to that? Okay, no, no, no. Give up the information. That's good enough. No, no, that's good enough.

And it's just going to pop into your head so I can detect your thoughts, but you don't have to want it to tell me. It's just going to pop into your mind. I've moved the cloud away. The portrait is there in the sky. What's the truth? It's like, well, my business isn't exactly knowing who the successor is, but more so what the successor wants.

Okay. And what is the inside thoughts? What's the image? What's the cloud thoughts? This isn't something that you're polishing to say to me. This is just your, it pops into your mind. Okay. Exactly.

The thoughts in his mind are Jimison better not have screwed me. Jimson? Yes. Jimson? Okay, tell me. What type of name? Tell me.

And Jimson better not have screwed me. And if this runt knows what I'm supposed to do. How dare you? Then I shouldn't have come into this town in the first place. Okay, I'm going to commune with small beasts. I'm passing that. along to Max. Max is going to go to the bathroom where O'Dady is taking a piss

and update him because Jimison is a name he's going to know. Do we not have a spell where we could just like freeze this motherfucking take him with us? But it probably is like the whole bar is full of assassins. The whole bar is full of assassins. Oh daddy, does the name, does it name Jimison

mean something to you? It's my uncle. That's your uncle. Well, it's not Larry Blackburn. It's It's Larry Blackburn's brother. Step uncle. Jimison. So it's your uncle. It's my uncle.

Yeah. He's not my real uncle, but like it's my uncle. Are you guys cool? Your blood father's brother. Oh, no. Excuse me. Yes. This is my blood father's brother.

It's my deceased father's brother, Jimison. Are you guys cool? Or what's the vibe there? Thought we were. Uh-oh. All right. I'm leaving the bathroom. I'm going to go get the bag of body parts from the co-check.

Out of bat form. We need to find Jimison. Or are you coming up as a bat to the... No, I'm coming back up. dresses as the assassin with the bag of body parts. Okay. Now it seems like my bitch-ass uncle had my dad killed and then knew that that was going to make me leave and that he was responsible for Larry coming to power.

Well, what do you actually know about that information? You just know a name. She has to come talk to me. Well, no, but she talks to him who put it all together. I told Max, Max told. I'm just coming up and I'm like, Daddy. So you're still at the table. How do you want to keep going?

This is like you got one more question to read this. But if you bring him the bodies. Come back to me and tell me quickly what O'Dady told you and what is our last question. Do you plan to do that? This is a bit like too meta. No, no, no, no. Super not meta. Do it.

That's for me. Back. What's our final question after you've, you learned now that history, the family history. So I now need, I know that now. Yes. And we are going to ask. And what did you what I'm in town to do. To say, ask this.

What do you want to know? About Jimison. About Jimison. I want to know why in the hell is this guy working. for Jimison, I thought Jim's, when I left, when I left, Jimison begged me not to leave and told me that it would be dooming to the entire realm if I left. I thought he was with me.

What if this guy is working for Jimson trying to assassinate Larry? Obviously. Could be. He could be trying to remove Larry to clear the path to the throne for you. Or that could have been a cover of 15 years ago and he wanted you gone the whole time. Right. So we need to know how Jimison, what was his mood when you left? And you were no longer there to observe.

Regretful. When I left, he tried to talk me in the staying. But then when you actually left, how did he behave? Didn't talk to him, haven't talked to anybody for here from 15 years. Corin? We're going to ask Corrin. He's told you this. You've come back.

You've whispered it to me as a bat. Corrin, we still have cloud vision. Uh-huh. This is actual, yeah. And Jameson. Jimison. Jimison? No free ads.

I named him after Reverend T.J. Jameson from Banroo. Oh, wow. And Jimison. Yeah. How did he respond to the heir to the throne? All right. Oh, Daddy, Tibedell.

Yeah, where's my boat? And he's like, tragically leaving town. Where are my daggers? Are we going to fight? I don't recall saying Jimson. Oh, we fucked. You did. You said it.

It is a cloud book. Did I say that? Did I say that? Hold on, hold on. He hasn't done anything. He hasn't done anything. He's like a little freaked out at the moment. I can use the abyss answers.

What the fuck? The party needs chaos, backup, or a terrifying distraction. What? That's one of my new powers. Okay, okay. All right. Hold on, hold on. Okay.

Corrin says this and he's like, look. I'm like, I told you I was a real nurture. I read that name in the Tomes when I was preparing to come to town. Performance check. That's a lie. Great cover. Great cover. Tom's got to know if he believes that.

Big time. Big buddy, big money, big money, big money, big buddy. Noammy, no amy, no amy. 10 plus what? To your charisma. Oh shit. Well, that's a negative. That's a negative too.

Yeah. All right, so that's an eight. I think that's enough to at least not die. Okay, so here's the thing. So the fact that you pulled a name out of his mind and doesn't really know. He's more freaked out than anything else. Yeah, I want him on edge. But he's more freaked out the fact that, like, he doesn't know who you are or the fact that you know what's going on in his head or, like, can know his business.

He's like, hey, listen, I don't know who you are, but this is getting too complicated for me. Yeah, should we just kill everyone? Like, I'm out. Let's get it poppy. Yeah, we might have to just slaughter the whole fucking tap. Can I take a martender? We got the info we needed. And then so he attempts to leave.

Do you want to stop him or are you going to let him go? Yeah, we can't risk him warning Jimison. We have to stop him. We have no choice. He's got to die. I'm sorry. Yeah, you're right. I've got a whole person.

Or, hey, man. Can we have, can Max, even. still on her shoulder? Yeah. Can we have Max drain him? Is she full from Bill? Bill was a tiny little guy. Bill was a tiny little guy.

By the way, did you mean to like kill him or turn him? Oh, kill him. Kill him. He's dead, dead. I do not want that attitude as a vampire. Oh, wonderful. Understood. He's going to leave.

What are you going to do? We're going to stop him. I'm going to eat him. We must stop him. In the middle of this bar? We got to wait until he's outside. Yeah, we got to wait till he's outside. Okay.

So he's like, I'm just going to go to the bar over there. You didn't see me. This place is about discretion. All right. Roll for jumping in. We're a little too wildly. So he goes off to the bar. Yes.

He goes off to the bar. You're going to jump him in the bar. No. No. He's not outside yet. He's sitting at the bar. Great. God damn.

How long does it go to be in here? He's sitting at the bar. So he also hasn't interacted with him yet needs to go to him and lure him outside. I can't do it. Can't be. But you are in disguise. Leo. It's not going to worry.

That's fine. Well, it's not going to work. Also, I don't have the powers of perception and stuff like that. Okay. You know, you're up again. Guess what? Back at the bar. No, no, no, no, no.

I'm going to do this for you. Yeah, you got to do it. Okay, so you've unvetted now. You're a tell you. I'm starting a fire. Nice. You can rescue the elven bartender. I like that.

Get around out of there. Everyone else has got to go outside. Love it. Okay. Now, here's a deal, though. How do you want to do this? Can I say something real quick? Yeah.

Just let you know about this plane. saying, if you start the fire, then everybody's going out. Yeah, it's always... So we're going to get them while everybody's out there? Well, they're going to scatter. Okay. Yeah, it's a fire. Okay, so you were going to start a fire.

How do you want to do this? Do you want to do this, like, on the sly? Or do you want to just, like, make a Molotov cocktail and, like, throw it in the middle of the bar? Can you describe the room to me again really quickly? Okay, so there's, like, 12 tables, circular tables. Very black. Very black and very clean. Black Harlow music going.

Yes. With like, again, 30 people in the bar in total. Are there like banners hanging? In the corner there's a bar singing. Is there silverware? Yes. Are there paintings? Yes.

I'm using heat metal to heat all of the silverware on the table until it's flaming hot and all the tables burst into flame. Okay. Now, do you, are you, does that spell say that you can heat everything that's metal in the room or one thing that's metal in the room? Okay, just one thing. What's the biggest metal thing in the room? Okay, so perception check real quick?

Okay. Listen, it's a nine, but that's not bad. All right, so even with a nine, you can see, like, this really big, like, coat of arms that's right behind the bar. And it's, like, a big shield and two swords with an insignia of a rose and some daggers inside of it. It's, like, adorned across, like, a wooden mantel piece. Yeah. And it's just, like, right behind the bar. Yeah.

I'm going to go burn that thing. Fantastic. Okay, so you cast heat metal on that coat of arms. Yeah. So it... Leo, get ready. So it glows, like, red hot. Yeah.

And the metal begins to melt and course through... Hold on one second. Okay. Wow. You're... So it, like, it starts to burn and melt and the wood starts to catch on fire. Correct. And slowly it starts to get a little bit bigger.

and the people at the bar start to realize that it is catching on fire. And there are some people that are freaking out now and beginning to leave. Yeah. There's like a little bit of chaos

is like, hey, somebody put that out and like they start to get buckets and they start to throw water over it from outside. And the fire's put out. Tough. I'm stepping in. But here's the thing, you notice that

Horan has left. That's all we needed. That's all we needed. But you got to find him. Well, Talio and Leo were tracking the whole time. Yeah. Okay. They were at, yeah, absolutely.

They can see him. Okay, so they follow him outside. They follow him outside. Yeah. I'm going to hold on that, that. Hell of yeah. But you're back outside. Shout out the back.

We outside. We outside. Who also? So it's just you and him? Yeah. And then everybody, you guys are still in the bar. Mm-hmm. Right?

Yeah. Okay. Well, I, I, I'm in the bathroom. I'm in the bathroom. Okay, dressing my bathroom. Well, I'm dressing my wound. Y'all want me to get infected.

My fucking uncle is out here. The shit is going on. You've been in the bathroom for like 90 minutes. I'm fucking, bro. I'm 14 again. All right. Can you do the dressing my wound gesture? I was dressing my wound.

I was like, you know, what y'all want me to do? I can't be seen. Right, yeah, no, you're laying low. You're laying low. All right, so you guys are outside. You guys are able to corner Corin. Do you want to start a fight or do you want to like immediately

like intimidate him interrogate him what you want to do. Listen, well, we go, like, we we knock, we can't tell him that we're going to, we will kill him. But if you want to leave, you want to walk away from this, we're going to need every single bit of information. All right, so how do you want to come up on him? You want to like,

like stick him with, like put some. Yeah, put a dagger to his throat. All right. You got to put a dagger to his throat. All right. Got it. Oh, right. So, no, no, you got to, so this is going to be like a grapple check. So like, you're going to, you're going to come up behind him, grab him, and then put a knife to his throat. So he's going to try to, like,

escape that. Grapple check. Because that's an immediate survival instinct. So roll a grapple check. Roll a grapple check. What did you get? Plus your strength.

Oh, shit. Tough. Plus your strength. Tough. That's tough. My strength. Do I have, I don't think I guess. Hold on.

It's got to be competing, so I got to roll for this. I wrote a three, and I don't have any strength. Okay. Uh-oh. Leo. You are always.

Tali is up to you now. Strengths right next to Constitution. At the top. Oh, it's right there. Oh, no, zero. Zero. Okay, great. Tough.

Oh, my God. He wrote the one. All right. Wasn't my clearest save, but you got it. Leo. Leo. He's immediately in a chokehold and he's got a knife to his throat. He's like, oh, fuck.

Okay, what do you want? What do you want? What do you want? Listen, I'm going to tell you some names, and you're going to give us information. All right. Jimison. What do you know? Jimison, Tibido?

Yes. Who is that? that's that's that's the the brother of the the queen magistrate of here right and what is did he try to have some people killed oh my god yeah yeah he hired me to to get to get that done and like he he told me to hire my worst guys worse guys worse yeah i don't know why he said that he's trying to lure you back it's a trap oh no it's very clearly a trap fucking go through the telepoor god damn it he wanted us So he wanted us to kill these guys. And follow the trail to come back here.

What a fucking bitch. Okay, interesting. Does Larry not Fishburn know about this? I don't know. I'm assuming so. He wanted O'Dady Dead for years. So wait a minute. If he wanted...

Okay. I'm just going to come out. No, no, no. Reveal myself. Wait, wait. He was like, why wouldn't James Johnson just kill O'Donady? Why would he send his worst guy? Well, he said his worst guy so it's a trap.

But why would he just in his best guys? I'm fucking sleep. No, no, no, no, no. He wants all of us. He wants you alive. Why does he want O'Dady alive? I don't know. Ask him.

Where is he? Where is he? He's in the bathroom. Not O'Daddy's in the bathroom or Jimerson's in the bathroom? No, Jimisans in the bathroom. Oh, my God. That actually was exciting. That was great.

Dave. Wow. Oh, Daddy? Oh, Daddy. Oh, Daddy, you feel a hand on your shoulder. Oh, no. On the urinal. He was dressing his wound.

He was dressed at the urinal? You guys, I'm legitimately nervous. I'm scared. And he's like, I catch you in the bathroom again, son. Wow. And it is your uncle, Jimison, Tibado. Okay. He's like, I catch you in the bathroom again after all these years.

Again, like, doesn't... Come on now. Is that masturbation? I thought I talked you back. It must be, yeah. Well, Unk, just like then, it seems like to me that the bathroom is the safest place to be. Well, it better be.

You got nothing to say to me? I was actually expecting you to have something to say to me, being that it seems pretty obvious that you sent some dead slap dicks to try to kill me and my friends. Yeah. So my question is, what the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah, those slapdicks that I sent you are people that I knew that you could handle. I taught you how to fight since you were 10 years old, all right?

And how, and I take it, they seem to give you some trouble. Yeah, a little bit of trouble. And I would think that if you loved me, that welcoming me back would involve helping me find my mom and say hello to everyone and maybe having a couple of drinks with a couple of animals. All right, okay. Again with the animal thing, I know that that's why you left. I know,

I love animals. I know, I love animals. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear about the fucking animals. You never, you never really, all right. You never saw me,

you never gave me the opportunity to love the animals that I love and I had to leave. It's like, this is getting wild. Oh my goodness. Get, get you and your fucking friends

into the corner booth. I got a private room. We're going to talk about this. Why should I trust you? Yeah. Because your mother's in peril. Oh. Okay.

And I needed you to come back. You couldn't just send a raven? I sent those idiots because I knew that... I sent those idiots because your fucking stepfather wants you dead, and I was assigned to do it. So the reason that I sent a bunch of idiots to do it is because I know they wouldn't fucking kill you. To maintain the cover.

And the only way to get you back here is to try to threaten your life, apparently, because we try to reach out to you and you never fucking call back. So anyway, welcome back. Well, tell you this. I'm gonna go out and get my friends, but I won't let you know something. I want to let you know something here.

You're talking to me like this now? Yeah, I hope you know this. We have a vampire. Yeah. We have a forest gnome. Right. We have the baddest motherfucker in the whole world. You've never seen anybody like that.

We have myself and we have Leo. Right. And we have Leo. And we have Leo. So the moment. But the Leo is also here. So the moment

that any of this doesn't pass our smell test, we are going to fuck you up, fuck him up, and fuck everybody up that we think is in on this. Look, it's fine.

I'm in a moment of desperation here. All right. Get whoever you need. What is that? Let's go to quarterback. You need. I need to tell you something. All right.

All right. And like you, and like, roll a sense motive here. Ooh. Ooh. That looks like a, that's an eight. That's a,

Johnny, what did that say? That's an 18. That's an 18. Yeah. So you can clearly tell that like, you've seen this look on him before.

It's genuinely earnest. Like, he's not trying to fuck with you here. Like, he did what he had to do. You can tell that. I have whiskey. But you have a lot of questions still.

Yeah, of course. Okay. So you guys. Do you want to, like, gather everybody else? I got to go to everybody. Okay. So you gather everybody else. You come back into a private room that's, like, near the back.

We still got Jimbson? I mean, what do you want to do with, what you mean, Corinne? No, no, no, no. Oh, Corinne, yeah, sorry. You still have a knife to his. We have a knife. Back outside, please. That's a great question.

Where's the hot bartender? She actually is about to, like, walk out on her shift. And so you got a knife, you got a knife to a guy's throat. And she's like, hey, is your name? Leo, was your name? What are you doing? I thought you were... Hey, don't worry about that.

Listen, I got some business. I got a little tattoo. Is there, like, address? You're holding a man's, like, neck to his third. Yeah. Is there an address or a raven? Is this somewhere I could reach you? Deadway.

Is this a way? Is that where I can reach you when we dealt with this is? She scrolls, like, she gets, like, a little bit of parchment, like, scrolls her address on her face of paper, tosses it your way. And she's like, like, anytime after eight. I will, I will hit you later. Let's go the corner booth. Are you, wait, so hold on. Are you letting this Corinne guy go?

No, no, no, no, I'm with him. I got her number. We're going back to the, I'm with Corinne. He's coming to the booth with us. Coming to the booth with him. Yes. Okay, so you're walking into the bar with a man, with a man, with a knife, no, no, no, no. You got to tell him out, no, no, are you fucking nuts?

No. Like, we got to keep him with us because we got to know if he's, we can't bring him back into the bar at gunpoint. Can't do it. Everybody, everybody's still in the bar. People are going to know me, Jomi. We can't do that. I'm getting pissed. We got to, we got to bring him in.

We have to bring Jimison out. What if you either have to get the dagger to his back at the TV? We can't not bring him in there. Leo's all cloked up. I think the cloak could hide the knife. So, yeah, not to his throat. Yeah, not to his throat. Nice to the ribs.

So is a tavern a safe space for this like discussion? So if I'm hearing this right, you are going to walk him back into the bar with like a knife to his back. Try any move. Like to like hide the fact that he is being held there. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. What we should do is we should do is we should.

send me back in to the corner booth alone and we should then put it to Jimison that if he really wants to have this conversation, he should come outside. And then when he comes outside... So you're going to... Okay, so what you want to do is actually you're changing the location and you want to... I'm going to go to the corner booth alone

and I'm going to put him to the test now because if he's sincere, if he'll come outside. When he comes outside, he'll see his guy and he'll know he fucking mean business. We very recently were attacked in our own bedroom. In some hefty queens. We can't like conduct business. on someone else's turf.

We just can't do it. We need to leave the down. So you're taking this, you're taking this all outside. You tell everybody else, the whole party is coming outside. And we're all on edge and there's a new hot bartender, so I got us some wings. So everybody can calm down and we can have a nice conversation. Oh, some lemon pebble wings. Yeah. Right, right.

So you come out with wings. Yeah. And you're eating while. No, everybody's eating. No, you're doing like a rusty from Ocean's 11 thing. Can I, can I snack on corn? Yes. Have a little.

You got to ask everybody else. We have to verify. We have to verify, we have to corroborate their stories. A step. No, no. I think it's actually scary for him if he walks outside and he sees, and he sees his man, think about how scared you would be. Let Petitou, just a little sip.

As long as he can still answer questions. Jimison comes out, the whole party comes out. I can stop anytime. With Corin with a knife to his back. This is, I'm assuming away from the bartender that's standing, or the, the bouncer that's standing outside. The bartender's gone. So this is like in the alley behind.

Bouncers are asleep. So everybody comes out. You guys are in the alley. You've got corn by the throat. Jimison's here and he's like, okay, you can let him go. He's just a patsy. What do you, like, what's this about?

And I can ferreliate him, right? Oh, you don't know nothing. I mean, I just, I just hire him to hire his worst guys. That's it. He doesn't know anything else. But can we trust him to be released since the wild? What if he says to some of his friends out in town? Let's, hey him.

And what happens? The black is a room full of assassins. All you got to do is buy their silence. I don't know if we should, we should just murder everyone. I think we can let him go. What if we at least tie him up for the duration of our business in town? I'm using hold person on him for right now. There you go.

You want a whole person? We can't let him go gossip. We can't let him spill the tea. Jimison is not running the show. Okay. Remember this is my home. Are we coming back with a whole bunch of fucking brutality? Can we threaten him for real?

Like, hey, listen. Yeah. You can roll to intimidate him. Roll to, you mess around. You get the fangs. Nine. That's a nine plus your charisma. Nine plus charisma.

plus two, eight. Eight. Okay. And what do you want to say to him? Listen. What the fuck? We not go. She want to eat you bad.

What just happened? Nine plus two, it's not eight. What? Oh, nine, it's 11. Damn. And you just don't? Yeah. Yeah.

Sorry, I shouldn't have agreed with that. No. No. Still. We got a, Steve. Steve. It's an 11. How many of your shit?

Deep is everyone. My goodness. Too many meats. She want to eat you. Yeah. I want to keep you alive. Here's the place. I even hear a whisper that you talk to anybody about this lunch.

Yeah. And she'll do it. The thing. The entire thing. Roll also to intimidate for that for you guys. A million. Six. Six.

Plus charisma. Oh, off the charts, baby. That's what? Yeah. Um, you know. Yeah. Plus three. Nine.

That's nine. Okay. Like, more than me down. He is terrified. like, regardless of all this, like, I'm gone, you will never see me again. Do you let him go?

Yeah. All right, he immediately runs off as fast as he possibly can. So you're standing here with Jimison. We're going to see him again. It's like, all right. We're going to regret letting him go. Mark My mother. Let me eat him.

We are going to regret letting him go. Yeah. All right. And so Jimison's like, all right, are you ready to, are you ready to listen to me now? All right. Get to it, Jimson. I'm fine. Yeah, just talk your shit.

Listen. I get to. I remember. Who was this? Tully is my favorite. All right. Jim's he got a lie attitude for a motherfucker surrounded.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. That is a good one. That's a great point. This is my friend. I'm your blood. Yeah, and I've seen you in a long time and you sent somebody to try to kill us. Don't talk about our friends.

Give us the fucking spiel. Woo! Role for friendship. All right. All right. Your stepfather. Your stepfather. He's been on a tear.

Not only has he been ruling this city, but he's trying to effectively change it forever. I don't know how, but it's not something. Politics is one thing. Consoleration of power is one thing. Oh, the people's princess. But the unmaking of something, it feels like that's what's going on here.

How's you trying to change? You're talking like a Rasagool, like. Oh, Legation of Seattle. Is there a redistricting effort? It feels like whatever. whatever he wants to do. Are we? What is he trying to do?

It's more than redlining. It feels like an unmaking of a town that you grew up in. The only thing that he feels threatened by is what he's calling the old blood for some reason. And I can only assume that that's you because you're the only one that has a claim to this city left. Since you don't care about that anymore,

I've got to bring you back because your mother's endangered. She's not herself. She's not lucid. She's not the same that she's been in years.

Is this like a Theodian king? This is... Oh, Grimor one-tonging. Like, actually under... I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. No, mine too.

Oh, boy. When you say she's not herself, is she thinking straight? Is she... No, she's not there. It's not her. Goodness. She doesn't talk about you.

She doesn't talk about the things that you should... This is such a tragedy for the kingdom. Okay, quick, quick family meeting. That doesn't, you're in stopping the story? Do we scurry and help your mom directly? Or do we go do that back cave thing we were supposed to do? Oh, that's tough. Well, part of me right now, I kind of want to pull in Ocean's 11 is sneak in.

Yeah. Save O'Daddy's. Well, we got to plan it. We can plan it at a back cave. And we need to plan it at the back cave. Well, Talia, you make a good point. You say that. He's hosting a ball tomorrow.

Ooh. Is it a costume ball? Can I bring some? How did you know that? Fancy dress. Fancy dress. He is hosting a costume ball. We can wear masks.

He's inviting every powerful family. Leo asked if he could bring someone. We got to get rid of Leah. For real. Leo, you're taking your eye off the ball. I got it. My God. We got a lot.

We got to get rid of Leo. Keep that thought. Keep that thought. If. Yeah, do we get a plus one? He's inviting every. powerful family in the city. He wants to consolidate as much power as he can

and get everyone to whatever cause he's trying to make. I know what we should do. For this town. Poison the mead. I don't, you could, but you can't get in. He's got the entire city under his thumb. If he knows you're coming, he'll have all of the city guard on top of it. Follow question. Operations seduce everyone

with an invite. Yeah. Possibly. The guests have plus ones. We need to become dates. But listen. We can get invited. What I say it is crazy. We can get invited. Infiltrating this compound is going to be a lot more difficult. It's changed since you've left. There are guards.

There are magical staves of protection. There are too many things to count. I feel like you're not acknowledging our pivot to seduction. True. You will need invitations. Yeah. Legitimate ones. Right.

That's forgery. Costumes. Yeah. Well prepared magic and spells. Okay. And a good layout of how this works. When is this again? Tomorrow.

Tomorrow night. God damn. There's no mage. There's somebody that I know that could help you. He's one of the best foragers I know. He's a little shady and he's really difficult to work with. Eames. This is Inception.

Yeah. His name's Bill Millman. What? Oh my God, guys! We killed Bill. We killed Bill. We killed Bill? Listen.

So. Oh, my God. No, you're slap dick assassins. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Now, we got to let you know. You see, now here's a deal.

Now, listen. Now, here's a deal. Here's the situation. I want to let you know something. We really try. So here's a deal. We really tried. So here's the deal.

It's very difficult. Bill's dead. But just listen. But listen, I want, before you get all incredulous with us, we had just come back from a really traumatic situation where our lives were hanging into balance. Because of you. And so, because of you.

And so, you, rather than send someone to communicate with us, you send someone to kill us. And so we didn't know what we were supposed to do, but Bill's fucking dead. Guess what guys? I have the necklace of Speak with the Dead. Oh my God. Let's talk to Bill. Oh, my God. I'll stand up.

I'll stand up again. Come on. You killed one of the best foragers and... I want to make a very big point. Hold on. He was a dickhead. Right. And just to let you know...

I'm sorry. I didn't know that criminals could be dickhead. Can I let you know something? Just tell you something real quick. Yeah. This reminds me of what happened after the baseball game like a couple of days. Remember?

And like, rather than like move on to try to give me encouraging words so that I could play better than the next game. All right. All you did was get hung up on the fact that I remember this. Okay. Oh, he absolutely remembers that. Exactly. So what I'm saying is don't make that same mistake.

Yeah, don't gas my old daddy. All right. So we can't undead him. Yeah. But Tyler got an necklace. He could see just out of course. All right, listen, I don't care how you go. Move on.

Your only, your only chance is to do it tomorrow night. All right. I need to get back. he's expecting you dead. I need to find some way to prove that you're dead. Do you need a bag of body parts because I know where you can find one? Really? You have one? Okay, yeah. I'll take that.

Here's the coat check tab at the Black Rose tab, which I definitely did not that I did not burn down. All right, Jimson. Let's slow down. Let's spark up a little bit. I have an idea. Why don't you, why don't you leave the back door to the castle open and we could just walk through? I will try my best. I will try to get that information to you if it has. But if you will know, okay, if I leave the back door open for you, if I find some way to let you in.

Yeah. There will be a, there will be a green lantern lit on the south lawn. Okay. And black as day. Kyle Tanler. I would look. Black Strziker. Yes.

All right. I went to Jay Gatsby. I want to Jay Gatsby. Hold on. Jim is who's playing. Do you have anything else to say to him before you leave? I do. I do.

I have another part of the plan. Okay. This is what we should do. Right. The entire team should walk through the back door. I should walk through the front door. Hell yeah. As me.

Yeah, I think this is it. You will be killed immediately. Guys, we should not do that then. Jimson will say that you will be killed immediately. So he's going to kill me in front of the... So he's going to kill the long lost crown prince in front of the entire part. He can't risk it.

It won't kill you directly, but you will die. But remember, we didn't know what the deal was. By the way, this is not like... Jimison is saying this. He's not stating facts necessarily. He knows what he knows. Hey, Jimison? Yeah. If we had like a necklace that could talk to dead people, would that

be helpful inside of the situation with Bill Millen? RIPI. Yeah, probably. He's dead, right? Let me roll. Let me speak to my hold. I'm not letting, Jimisin, I'm not preventing you from doing anything. You can do your green light, backdoor help that you're going to try your best, and we're going to go talk to a dead forger, I guess.

We're going to the back cave to forge a plan and talk to the dead. Wonderful. Okay, great. So you guys go back to Bill Millman's place or We got to retrieve the body and then we go to the back cave Midnight Mage HQ We're going to Bill Millman's getting Bill Do we need to be at Bill's? We need his body

I mean his body, you left his body at his shop We have to get his body and we're getting Bill And then we're going to the back cave Yes. Okay so are you going to talk to him At the back cave? At the back cave. Okay so you All right Okay, don't worry about it All right

You're asking too many questions No no I am So you go back to Bill Milman's shop, you take his body. Yeah. How are you going to like... Over the shoulder. Okay, just out in the open for all to see? We're going to prop him up. It's weekend at Burnfield.

Yeah. Okay. Our friend Bill. Yeah. I'm going to need a performance check from the two people that are carrying him all the way. Hold on man. Ain't this in the medieval times? Don't shit like this happen all the time? People just walk around with bodies? Yeah. Doesn't he also have a horse and carriage?

He just put him in the carriage? He's a smaller guy. like, hey, man, you know, we had a little bit too much of the dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit tuckered out. You could. I could also use my reduced spell, and, like, someone could, like, put him in their pocket. I feel like this is less interesting than whatever we would do with him back of the back game. That's fair.

All right, how about this? You get him to the back cave. Who do I see on the road? Oh, by the way. It's a hot bartender with a horse and carriage. Let's put it in. She went home. All right.

Okay. You guys get under the back cave. Chuck. Yes. How do you remember this? Talia. Talia. How do you remember this place?

looking. Dead name him. During pride. What like, what are you doing? That's like, you crazy? Wow. Talia, how do you fucking? I can't believe you would do that. Sorry?

To answer your question. It's seen better days. The warmth of my mouth. and his love is gone. All right. Okay, so you entered this place. So what it looks like to me is... Y'all, Charles is so fucked in a head.

I know. It's an old yet elegant office, littered with cobwebs, clearly in a state of decay. All right? Office. Lots of, like, the wood of the desk has been, like, rotted for a while. Nobody's been there for quite a minute.

On the desk, you see notes of papers and research and things that he would have like gone out for missions and like people that he would have been looking for. But you know that he hasn't been the Midnight Mager in quite some time. Yes. On the desk, you can see a little piece of parchment that might have your name on it. Would you like to read it? Oh. Wait, do you want me to read this?

Mm-hmm. Okay. Do I have to roll? No. Okay. But I'll tell you what it says. Okay. from the Midnight Mage, I love you.

Believe in your heart, believe in friendship. You're awesome, your hair looks great. Okay, so you don't want to know what I have written for you? All right, page two, you can read page. Okay, great, great. It's basically, hey, it's Bob. If you're reading this, I'm dead. And I've bequeathed you my Midnight Mage armor.

Bob! It's the end of the Dark Night Rises! Oh my gosh! And it's, and it's, and it's, it's in our secret place that you can find. Joseph Gordon Levin. Oh my God. And if you,

and roll a perception check. Roll the perception check. And then the credits. And then that's it. We never go back. You got to go. All right. I have a nine.

I watch it. You got to go be Batman with nobody ever training you and like it's like they did with him. Oh, Mary Sue. Yeah. Right. He taught you how to throw one explosion. Yeah. One of the Mary, too.

Wait. So where's my perception? Perception. That will be under, uh, wisdom. Under wisdom. I'm okay. So after I got a nine minus one, that's like an eight. Okay.

All right. So as you like observe, as you observe the like rotted bookshelves and like very dusty trappings of like this north wall, you can still remember the spring loaded book that opens up. Hell yeah. And you pull it. And in near pristine condition is. is basically like the elegant suit of a ninja. Hell, yeah.

It looks fucking shit. Hell yeah. Is there a ninja mobile? There's no ninja mobile. Damn, this is amazing. Actually, you're wrong? I just checked the garage. This is,

this is not the one of us. Right. A ninja mobile. Actually, know what they have? They have a ninja mobile for you. And then, like, from the 60s, it's like a little side car. It's a little sidecar.

Only fits one, but yeah. Okay, so you were in the back cave. You now have this magically imbued armor. Okay. Did you want to speak to the now deceased Bill Millman? Whoa. It says I contain, it contains two daily charges of speak with the dead. So I would like to talk to Bob first to him, tell him I miss him, and then I will talk to him.

Okay, well, Bob is, like, long since, like, died in the line of duty, and, like, he's like... Oh, do you need the corpse? Yeah, you need the corpse. The corpse isn't here. All right. Well, wait, so I'm going to talk to Bill. then. Yes.

So you don't have to speak with the dead because you just automatically cast it. Okay. And basically what happens is the grant sentence of life and intelligence

to a corpse. You choose within range, allowing you to answer the questions that you pose. The corpse must still have a mouth and can't be undead. The spell fails when the corpse target

or the spell, blah, blah, blah, blah. Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including the languages that it knew. Answers are usually brief.

cryptic, repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer. Oh, this piece of shit, Bill Millman. Bill can fucking keep lying. We'll kill him again. So you know that, but you want to cast it and ask. Got to. Yeah, we got to.

We have to learn how to forge. We need to be able to forge the invitations. Yeah. But we need to ask simple questions. About forging. How is you? How is you? Can't catch a question?

Does he know that we are the ones that killed him? Does Bill know that a very, vampire. I'm going to go stand outside. Well, I'm saying are we going to have to like negotiate with him because he's fucking pissed? No, no, no. He can only answer five questions and then after the five questions are over, he's just popped on the

question. So he knows that the people who murdered him are the ones asking him for help. Likely, yeah. So he has no incentives. He's not, what the fuck. He's somewhere in the nether world. I have disguised self. Okay, so you want to disguise yourself? Can we show up like his old chick? His old chick. His old

Oh, he's old guy or whatever. You don't know who that is or what they look like. Wait, him and Patrick were cool, right? We can show up. You thought you had us. We fucking. She disguised self-show up as somebody else.

Oh, this is great. Asking questions that they wouldn't ask. Whatever. I'm disguising myself as Patrick. And he's not even going to realize that he's being, like, grilled from a different plane. He's going to think he and Patrick are just in the land of the dead together.

Having a chat. All right. Amazing. Okay. So you want to do this. This is a disguised self. It's good. And then I've got to roll his wisdom in order to know whether or not he can see through.

Okay, great. So you cast the spell. And then you're basically, like, you cast the spell. And then you're going to, like, all you guys are going to clear out, and you're just going to be disguising yourself as Patrick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It's me on Patrick. And then you'll ask those questions. Okay. So, okay, you're going to do this. Great. You cast it. You're disguised? Everybody clear out?

As he is like kind of regaining consciousness like his eyes, his ears like there's like green light emanating from his like head and chest and like he's being lifted up into life and like he's looking around as if he doesn't really know where he is

but he's like and then he just like settles into the room and then is just sitting there. Yo Bill it's me Patrick. Hello, you knew me from life and I have some five simple questions for you. Number one,

where would I find the supplies I need to forge a royal invitation? Okay. Okay, great. Patrick, so good to see you. It's not an answer. Oh, yeah, the

places that we need to forge like we did in old jobs, like that's in the basement. I have the, I have the wardrobe that gives you any clothes that you can desire. I've got magical staves. What do you need?

I need costumes for five people to make it convincingly into a royal sware. Do we have those? Yes. I need supplies to

forge convincing royal invitations. Do we have those supplies? Yes. They are in my desk, they're in my drawer behind my counter. Ask about the magic that we need to get in. So you're whispering from outside of the door? Yeah, but she's got great hearing.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to set the scene. Ask about the magic that we need to get in. Like, what do they say? Oh, into the castle. Into the castle. And if five uninvited people wanted to get into the castle and they had the right invitations and the right clothing, do they need any other kind of magic to get in? Usually those invitations are magically enchanted

and tied to whoever is bound to them. So, yes, we have those. They are, this is like a corpse talking from me. We have those just write down the name of who you want to be on the paper. and you will magically be them. We have to kill five people. Yeah, two more questions.

We have to kill five people. Yeah, and they have to have actually been invited. We need to take their place. They're going to know because of the magic. Well, couldn't we just deal there? We can't make people up. Were they actually invited? He said they have their, this is not a question I'm asking you.

No, this is a huddle. It feels like we could make people up and then we can enchant them using that. To be tied to that thing. But isn't the magic to vet that they were actually. invited? Okay, hold on. We got two more questions. So this... Ask about the guest list. Yeah. Yeah. Talley, do you have an input?

Who is that? Who is that? Who is that? Okay. Who is talking? Max, please. Was somebody talking just now? Patrick, are you alone? It's just

you and me like the old times, buddy. Do you guys have a brokeback situation? Shut up. Terrible. Do the five people need to be existing people on the guest list, or can we make up five names and magically encode them to the invitation? You can make up five names. Okay, we have one more question, guys.

Really, really make it count. Are there any holes in this plane? You could think. How could this go wrong? Yeah, it's a good question. Hey, Bill. Yeah, last one for you. What's up?

Looking real great, I must say, as ever. I feel really good. I hope I'm not dead. Absolutely not. Is there any holes in this plan or any way this plan could go wrong that you can think of? I think the best laid plans that we have had in our days of adventuring. Yeah, classic, classic. We've had, yeah.

We've always, we've always made. a good cover story and make sure that when you enter the wardrobe when you fight someone the clothes disappear and then he slumps to the ground okay

all right people clothes disappear okay so we're getting costumes from this wardrobe but if we fight someone then we're naked not necessarily oh just like unenchanted from whatever clothing we were wearing oh do we become us like rags again we're Cinderella people see us as

our people. After one fight? After one fight. If we fight people. It's going to be tough for us because we like to fight people. So we like to fight. So he's telling us that when we fight the clothes disappear. Yeah. Or he's asking us to make sure that the clothes disappear. No, he's telling us that the clothes

will be. So we have to do this whole thing and not get in the fight. We've got to do a clean. Tough for us. Or if you get into a fight, you got to know that you're fighting. Tough for us. Oh, excuse me. Okay. So by order of that plan, that means you go back to Bill Millman's house. Or to his shop. Get all the supplies.

Get all the supplies. And then prepare for going to the ball. Uh-huh. Great. All right. So you go back to Bill's shop. You find the papers that you need. Basically, like, any sort of, like, pen that you can write with, anything that you can write down, it kind of just, like, glows orange with, like, a bit of a fit.

Like, as you write, like, this invitation. What's all in Bill's Shop? Close the supplies for the... So when you, like, as you search, give me a... perception check, everybody. Damn, I got a lot. 20. 10. 17. I got an 8.

You got a Nat 20? I got a 20. Okay, so you thoroughly search the basement of Bill's shop. Next to the teleport station stage, you see some random boxes full of destroyed supplies, but you also see a wardrobe. As you look into the

wardrobe, it looks as if it is a massive hallway. of like infinite amounts of clothes. Narnia. You have found that if you simply walk into it and walk out, you are wearing somebody else's clothes. Oh, yeah. Oh.

Will they be like properly connected to our cover stories? It seems that if whatever clothes he can imagine wearing, he is wearing. There's a magical enchantment on the space. Oh, Daddy. Yes. What are you wearing to the ball? Are we going in as a group?

Like, do we want to have a cover story that connects us? or individuals. We need to go at as individuals as to not arouse suspicion. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. So we go in as individuals. Can I bring in Scotch?

Is this a pet-friendly? Should be. Scotch gets their own costume. Yeah. Absolutely. Would you like to put Scotch into the corridor and see what comes out?

Absolutely. Well, you get a plus one and the invitation. You put him in the wardrobe, you close the doors, you open them, he's wearing a little bowtie. Incredible.

Remarkable. Very tasteful. Hey, I walked in there, and I walked in there, and I came up. out looking like Zoro. Zora? Oh.

Okay. Usually Zoro fights people. So what? So what. But it's like a, like, Aero Flynn type of, you know? Like a Harold? Well, I like the Zorro that came on when I was a kid. Yeah, black and white Zorro.

Black and white Zorro. It's like him. Okay. That's how he looks like, but you know, with the flares. Got a nice waist to it. You know what I mean? I'm like a little, nice little flowy, you know? Something a little loose.

Got my chest, got my chain on me, you feel me? All right. Let people see it. Just something regular day. It's something light. Everybody else? You're wearing like a nice cocktail dress? No, no, no, no.

I walked in and now I walked out and I look like Darth Vader with the saver. Yeah. You look like you're going to dress to a black tie ball. But it's a costume. As Darth Vader. Yes, and. Yes, and. I'm just, no, I'm just anding to make sure that that's what you're doing.

You got a cape on. Yeah, okay. Great. All right. And Max? Oh, I look like that scene in Bram Soaker's Dracula, where Gary Oman has the top hat and the little glasses, the gray suit. Hell yeah. Okay, great.

Man, he was the man in that. So sick. Ritz. It's a boxing party. Then I think I'm basically doing Saturday Night Fever. No, you too late. Okay. So like white suit?

White suit. I got the bell bottoms with the heels joint on. Right. It's a disturbing movie when you rewatch it. When you walk, by the way, when you walk in. into that wardrobe. The book basically like it feels as if it's shouting

at you. But when you walk out, it's silent. What was it shouting to me? Nothing. It's just screaming. Oh, that's a... Jesus Christ. Can you talk to your booth? This screams always mean something. I love that. Oh my God. Do you have a translation spell?

The book does not shout. I would just like to say is the first sentence written here. It doesn't audibly. The book does not shout, it waits. It offers answers in a voice that sounds almost like your own. Haunting. I think that the magical wardrobe should give me an outfit that matches scotches, right? Because we're together.

So a single bow tie? James Bond. Yeah, and I'll be naked. Right, right, right. Yep. No, no, okay. So a tasteful suit. We await your fan art.

Yeah. So a tasteful suit. Vader, Zorro, Donchibulte, Gary Olman. Yes. I'm doing a summer suit, like a nice loose. Searsucker? Searsucker? Oh,

wide leg pants, blazer. Okay. No shirt underneath. Damn, oh. How many buttons are done? How many buttons are done? Nice. Just like one right shoes.

No, that like the Cape Lynn shut like D.B. Oh yeah. Oceans 8? But you gotta be comfortable. I'm wearing high tops. High tops? Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Team high top. Okay. So the clothes that you are now wearing basically are illusions, transmogrifications of the clothes that you are currently wearing. are currently wearing. I have all of your weapons on you. Is the magic armor,

is Talia wearing the magic armor under the Vader suit? Yes. Okay, great. So everything that you have before you put, you stepped into that wardrobe, you still have on you. But all of your weapons are obfuscated. Nobody can tell that you're carrying any of these things.

But the moment that you decide to get into a confrontation, the illusion breaks. Has there ever been a cooler Russian nesting doll than Batman inside of Darth Vader? Pretty great. Pretty cool. Awesome. Pretty cool.

But this armor can't pierce my heart. Still heartbroken over my master. A four-year-old master. I'm pouring one out. So you have your invitations. You have your costumes. Anything else you want to do before we're going? Yes.

We need a cover story. So you guys are going individually or as a group? Well, we should walk in individually. Should we pair up at least? Yeah, like each, well, you have your plus one. I do. And then we should each. Jomi's got a date.

Yeah. Oh, Jomemy, you're bringing the bar. bringing the bartender? I'm bringing the bartender. You're bringing the bartender. That sounds like a terrible idea. It's absolutely. It's the worst idea.

You're bringing up. I think of a house. So I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest with you guys. A lot of stuff is on the line here. My family's stuff. I mean, are we

killing Leo? He's distracted. He is distracted. He is a liability. He's the liability. He's the Christopher Maltesanti. Love this group. He's the Jesse.

Like, Leo got to die. He's bringing a girl he just met last night to a very important heist. The most high six moment of our life. She's going to do something dumb. I'm a little hungry because he didn't let me eat that card sharp guy. Wait. Whoa. You about to get two courses because this girl white.

So you're going to get her. I mean, we didn't roll for that. We didn't roll for white. Were we rolling for weight? Role for milk. It's the summer. Roll for milk. Yep. There you go.

We're gonna get best of both worlds. You gotta go, dog. You tripping. You tripping. This is about my family. So are you going individually or as a group? We got to go individually as to not around suspicion. Okay. Turn?

All right. You want to turn Leo into a vampire? Yeah. Max could at least eat the date. And then he's going to want to have sex. You know that if you turn to a vampire, he's going to want to have sex more, right? Max eats the bartender. That's a great idea.

She's dead. I drink the bartender. I did doubt for a little summer milk. Yeah. She's done. She's with heat. You killed her. Can she at least roll for that?

Yeah. No, you absolutely could. Okay. So in my mind, you transform into a bat in the middle of the conversation of planning this ice. You're ruining the game, bro. I'm so into this shit. It's serious about it. It's fun.

You're ruining the game. What's your role? What you're doing? So wait, no, for real, you want to go and like, you want to go. Yes. So there's like three things you got to do first. We need him to focus. You got to find out her ass.

address from Leo. She met him. But no, she doesn't know where she lives. I got that piece of paper. Yeah. From who? Yeah. So you just, he's like, hey, give me your address.

Can I roll and have one of my animal friends? Just follow her scent. You could. Okay. Can't I follow her scent as a vampire? Yes, you can. 17. Yeah.

All right. Whatever, daddy's. I'm going to play a bump with this. And just say that you killed the woman. That's just... She did. I wrote 15, so I did. So you just...

You bet your safe. You're safe. I think we all know that Leo is going to find another target at the... There's like 80 million... We're going to get in there and he's going to start breakdancing in the middle of the party and some dumb shit. It's just a question of when. I'm not taking it seriously. Right.

I'm coming back. And I'm going to say, and where was I? Don't worry about it. Actually, if you could just turn her, in which case she would be... She would be your baby man and then you would be able to have control over her. Okay. You're going to get, you're going to get. Yeah, like, hold on. Max, you have one option.

You have two options. Kill her or turn her to a vampire and make her your like familiar so you can do what you want with. We can make her stand outside. We can make her stand watch. And that's how. Yeah. Fledgling. Fledgling.

Fledgling. And guess what else you just did? You just stole Jummy's chick. They all there. They all happy. He can fuck a vampire? Why not? Okay, but she's gonna be like all.

It's a her now. That's true. I guess those are the vampire. So you now have a fledgling. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. Now, we all need cover stories.

Joey, you could have been a vampire, but you rejected that. So I made your girlfriend a vampire. Okay. Can I, I would like to use mage armor on O'Dadi before we go in. I have the ability to, if I touch a willing creature, and I think O'Dadi would be in this, in this case, who is not wearing armor. Mm-hmm. A protective magical force surrounds until the spell ends. Okay.

Hot. Spell ends if the target Don's armor or if you dismiss the spell as an action. Okay. So it says it lasts Yeah, I want to give O'Dady extra protection eight hours too. This is powerful.

So I'm using major armor on O'Donette. What time is it? Because the ball is tomorrow. Is it already tomorrow? I mean, you could wait until tomorrow. I'm going to wait until we're about to go. I'm assuming that gave you time to kill and turn.

We're crafting. What was her name? What was her name? What was her name? You don't even remember her name, Leo? Jesse. I'm not going to kill you. Never told.

He never told. He never gave him. the name. Leo, you on ball. I mean, she wrote it down of the piece of baby. Jesse. The vampire Jessica.

Yeah. Vampire Jessica. We're going to keep it moving. It's the next day. It's the next day. It's the evening. You are making your way to the party. Fantastic.

There's a line of, like, of, you know, partygoers that are all elegantly dressed waiting as they are being checked in via their invitations. You also see a, green lantern on the south lawn.

Hell yeah. But do we need the backdoor? Because we've got a color story and invitation. What do we think? Do we think that's like an indicator from Jimison, not just that the backdoor's open, but like, I've got you? It's going to be a safe

environment. Or what if someone found out about Jimison's plan? Or is it bullshit? Is it a false sense of security? It's in another trip. I can't say it. You see a green. The great guys, look at the green. I'll just say noted. We guys did such a great job.

at the party. It's going to be great. There we go. Oh! Well, New Orleans got. Oh, look at that. That's great. All right. So we're at the party. There's a line that you see to get in. It's a palatial city estate.

Okay. Like, elegant, like, streamers that are, like, adorning this, like, big city mansion. Kassan not? No, not streamers. Oh. It's not mafia phone. No. the, like, you could hear, like, bustling music inside.

There seems to be, like, dozens of people, like, just clamoring to get in here. Jesse. So, so you're bringing Jesse. Jesse? Your job. Stand by the back door. Just keep a watch out. Okay, so that's, this estate is like a city block.

So she's going to walk all the way around towards the back. Yeah. And basically, keep watch. Well, she's a vampire so she could be a bat. So she can patrol. You can send her flying around. Like a drone view? Jesse? Yeah.

Bat. Bat yourself. Okay, bat. And then just like kind of patrol the areas. Hell yeah. Wait, do I know Jesse has been turning to a bat? Am I this guy. Am I waiting for my date and the front?

Yeah, you think you've been stood up. I've been stood up tough. Jesse. We got to throw you up. All right. So you guys enter the, are you guys going to enter the queue to get into the party? Oh, we're queuing. All right, great.

So give me the order in which you first approached the bouncers for this party. I think it should be two in front. Two in back and O'Dady in the middle. Two in front, two and back. Oh, Dad, oh, Dad, in the middle. Okay, great. So we are going to, there's going to be, like, three city guards that are, like,

flanking the, like, main entrance to this gate. Like, one of them is going to ask you for an invitation. Invitation, miss. So the two of you. Hit, hand that. He puts it, like, in front of, like, this purple glowing flame. Yeah. And it, like, reflects back this orange,

light and he's like perfect. Welcome in. Oh yeah. And then O'Dady. Oh daddy comes. Invitation. Great. Pits it up to the orange light. It flickers and then he looks at it for a second.

And then perfect. Looks at you. He's like, welcome in, sir. Put you through. And then Leo, did your little elven girlfriend show? what kind of party do? She did, she might have stood me, I guess.

Oh, that's tough. Oh, you know all these elven ladies. You know, I really thought I found the one. I'm so sorry to hear that. And then he looks at your, in flame. He's actually like chiming in because he could hear this conversation in regards. He's like, don't worry. We've got, we've got, we got plenty.

I don't know. And he tries to go for a dab. No, she was the one. I don't think, I don't think I'll ever fall in love. We've got the two, the three and the four right inside. Oh. I'm a cross city guard. Love me.

Love me. All right. So you guys enter. It's an elegant walk up to the estate. This is all very familiar to you, O'Dady. You remember the yard. You remember this big open gate. As a matter of fact, it's kind of getting to me.

Oh, Daddy, are you all right? You need a moment? Kind of affected. I'm okay. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

His focus is always friendship. And I find that very sweet. So you walk in and it is gorgeous, but, Oh, Daddy, when you walk in, it feels like a garish violation. Nothing that you see in this, like, gorgeous estate is ever what it was before. Everything's been remodeled. The mirrors are gone. The colors in the house are all completely redone.

Is it like Hill Valley when Biff took over? This is the plot of the Will of the Meady. Yeah. Damn. Steve, your will of the manying it. Pretty much. So basically when you see this, you're kind of disgusted. And all of these rich and affluent families that you mainly knew of, but like only as names and in passing are now completely occupying this palatial thing that you once called home.

You see the dance floor with dozens of elegantly dressed people dancing conservatively, we'll say. You see a very elegant balcony overlooking it And you see a long hallway That leads up to some long staircases Which you believe to be or remember to be Both the like bedrooms and the quarters in which like you once grew up in Should we find your mom? Yeah, you can

There are several things that you remember and places that you remember visiting That you think would be of interest to you in this party everybody roll a perception check 17 19 17 17 16 10 10 okay so in the course of you like observing and like just casually walking around this party you see some servants that are walking

downstairs to what it seems to be something underneath the dance floor probably like towards the basement like you know that there were like The scullery. Like, not sculleries, but like there was basically like the kitchen area, servants quarters, stuff like that. The scullery. Is that what it's called?

Okay, it just sounded menacing. Like skulls were there. Scullery made. Like you see a suspicious amount of things being brought in, like more so than you would ever like know for a regular party to be. On the balcony, you see a beautifully dressed, very handsome, very debonair man that, is your stepfather holding court in an elegant dress. Dot dress in an elegantly dressed fashion. He can't.

You know what? Fuck it. Happy pride. He's wearing a beautiful dress. Good for him. He's wearing a beautiful dress. It looks amazing. He's holding court above, kind of just observing things.

And then you see two guards fashioned outside of that staircase. clearly where nobody is supposed to be, but you don't know why guards are guarding that section of the house. That's never familiar to you. So you have three things that you can look to do. You could look to confront your stepfather on the balcony. You can look and investigate what's going on in service quarters, or you can talk to the guards.

Oh, boy. It feels too soon to go right to stepdad, isn't it? We can't go right to step dead. We need more information. Well, the job is to get the mom out of the house. Have to check on mom first, yeah. Right. We don't know where she at and I don't know what to do.

Do you know what to say? We always go to the servants quarters. Gossip and the server quarters. That's where the information. That's what we're doing. Yep. Okay. So you all want to go or do you want to like divide and conquer?

Do you want to go to different? Do we need somebody? Remember, the fire didn't work out, but do we need somebody to set a distraction just in case it all goes wrong? So here's here, I did notice that you said that they were dancing conservatively. So maybe I pull a foot loose on the dance floor. Yeah. So does the bar do you want to jump in on that? You know what?

And then everybody It's a distraction and everybody gets some people shaking some ass while y'all go get some work in. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Can we actually change the music to footloose?

Like, can we call an enchantment? Well, you do have a bard. That's right. We do. That is. Wait, can we do a Marty McFly? Why show them some rock music up there? You play, you play footloose on that bitch

and you start going crazy. They're going to lose their minds. You try to play some Johnny Be Good up there for? Amazing. Yeah. We're down in Louisiana in the New Orleans. Do you want to do that back? Well, someone has to cause a distraction.

Yeah, someone has, that's a great idea. We need a distraction. It stood a log, cow made of earth and wood. And lived a country boy named Johnny Be Good. I'm going to call that in a media. I feel you to do this. I'm going to call that an immediate success. Just like a ring in a belt.

Go, go. For some reason, an amazingly dressed gray-suited, vampire-ish-looking, but nobody can say for sure. Person jumps on the stage, starts playing. with the band, which is usually just like liars and like drums and stuff. Your kids are gonna love this. And roll a performance check for me. Oh, it's gonna be fantastic.

It's a nine. But plus charisma. Yeah. 12. 12. Okay. Okay. So for some reason, you somehow convinced the band to join in on with you. Yeah. Watch me for the changes.

You get like, you get like 50% of the room. Yes. Buffin. Hell yay. Unchammon under the same. Yeah. Let's go. It's not necessarily a distraction,

but it's a shift in the room that people are actually like kind of having a good time. They're engaged. Yeah. It's kind of turning up a little bit. Tell you, what a great idea. Amazing idea. So you two are up there, making sure that everybody's having a good time upstairs. Who's going downstairs and service quarters? The rest of the party.

The rest of us. You three? Yeah. Okay. I don't know if I want Leo to come. I'll go. Scotch and I will come with you. I don't know if I want Leo to come. We can't. Leo comes with the band. He's going to try to fuck a kitchen win. in like 30 seconds.

Leo haven't. Leo, can not be trusted. Leo, come play the tambourine. This is too important. I think we should, I think at this point, we should have Leo stay and watch to tell us if something transpires. Leo can't come, no, Leo, no.

I got passed without a trace. They can't, they can't see me. Okay. If we need that on the guards, you want to use that somewhere. Leo, what do you want to do? If we need to get to the mom, we find the information where the mom is at,

I can pass a lot of trace and get to her without anybody seeing me. Okay, so you want to try that on the guards? Well, we don't know where she is yet. Well, I mean, you got... Well, I have a question. Or you got an upstairs way to where... No, no, no. I think it's... Should we split up?

Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Does... I have a question. Does anyone know where she is? Like, is this knowledge that can be attained if we find the right people? If you want to ask. Is she in hiding? Or has someone... You don't know. Do we have... You don't know. Would you like to ask around? Because... One of my

spells in my new book is ask the thing behind the door. Forbidding clues Contact of the plane The party is stuck or needs a truth But then it says no mortal knows And I don't know if that applies here I think that me and whiskey should go to the scullery

And then you and Leo should go And then if he looks like at any fucking point That he is going to flake out That you should just bite him Yeah Like you know what I mean? I'm up on stage right now What happened to multitasking?

I'll keep an eye I really should have given you guys like Bluetooth speakers just so you can talk to each other during the party. Oh, can we have, can we do a spell? There's like a stone

that can do that. Oh, okay. We don't have that. I just found a stone in my pocket. Oh, shut up. What? What does it do? All right.

Is it blue? It's a walkie talkie. I have one for all of us. Wow. Whiskey, who's going to go where? I think that you should go just exploring, looking for your mom

and I should ask questions because I don't want anyone to learn who you are. It's too risky, right? Okay. But maybe we should flip because I have something called detect magic, and I have to assume that magic is being used to hide the mom. So what if I, I'm small, I'm 3-5, what if I just start like, oh, I need the bathroom or something, like whatever, right? And just use detect magic and see if that can lead me to, so it lasts for 10 minutes.

Okay. I think I can move pretty quickly and see if I can detect magic being used in a certain quarter. and that can at least allow us to like narrow our search. I have a question. To the wing of the house where the mother might be. If I use Passa-Latrice, can I just use that for myself or can I use other people with that? That is just you.

Dang. Can I have a question? I have a question. Are any of my pets or any of the horses or animals that were around when I left, are they still there that I could talk to them? 15 years later? Well, if it's a horse or if it's a small dog.

It's a small dog that lives a little bit longer. Wait, wait, wait. We don't have an animal that remember. the mother sent and can follow. Well, the animal... Oh, okay. Well, hold on. Well, couldn't I, to that point, couldn't I just talk to any animal that's around

and ask that animal about... You want to go to the stables? Yeah. I want to go to the stables. Okay. Oh, Daddy's going to go to the stables. You're going to go to the bathroom and detect magic, and you're going to pass another trip. Ask the rats. Well, I can speak with small bees. Oh, hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll ask the rats.

Yes, gosh. As I wander, as I use detect magic to try to find the right wing, I'll ask the rats as I go. Yeah. Okay. Why not? All right. So. I'm detecting magic and I have found.

You're going to talk to the animals. I'm going to go talk to my mom. I need to find where she is and then I can pass a lot of trace. No one wants to talk to the help. I mean, somebody could talk to the help. I'm going to talk to the help. I'm going to start with. Tali.

Oh, you're on the ball. You're on the dance store. I guess I got to talk to the help. No. I got to be me. I got to talk to the help. I got to talk to the help. Leo.

All right. I'll do it. I'll do it and then I'll use to text. No, no, no, no. If Leo swaps into the dance floor, shakes ass, makes the menace of himself with the women of the party.

That's the distraction. So if you hand it off to him, you're out there, you're dancing, Leo. You're going to be thrilled. You can mingle with so many of the local. The only goal is to ruin the game. All right.

Talia and I are heading down to the quarters, and we're going to talk to the staff. And I think we should start with the maids. Yes. Here's the question. where can't you clean, right? Okay. Because they're not going to want

the mother who is really like a prisoner in her own home. Okay. To be exposed to people who could glean. Okay. So you, so you like pass through the party. You have quartered a maid and you just said, hi.

You walk into what appears to be like the kitchen and then you pass through the kitchen into like this downstairs. I said I needed a snack. I'm sorry. I've got my familiar Scotch here. Scotch needs some milk, and I was like, I'm, and he like, do you have like a wheel of cheese?

You know, we've been traveling for a long time. We're here. We're explorers. We have a thirst for knowledge, a love of found family, and we're here to learn about the land. But also your nobles. Remember that. And, you know, we have just a real passion for Star Wars and Beach attire.

Okay. Sarker and Darth Vader. I made that comic. And if you help us, we will cause a workers' revolt and rise up against the oppressors. And put the one true prince. Wow. Well, we can't say that. You know, is it prepping for a party?

A party of this, oh my God, the guest list. It's like the droid uprising. Hold on. How many guest rooms did you need to prep? How many people are staying over? Yeah. Any rooms that weren't available? Should we talk to the oldest help first?

Because they remember. Okay, I gotta give, I gotta do something. Okay, go ahead. You're asking the maid all of that. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Uh, hello.

Yeah. That's a lot. The one place is that I know that I can't clean. She's like kind of like, like kind of struck because like what she believes to be a very rich person and like her social better is like starting to interrogate her. Yeah, you guys have any like charisma you want to lay up? I guess. Well, instead of a charisma made, here's a noble coin. Free yourself

Love Shathe. Why pretend we're not after information? And she, instead of like one of our gold? Oh wait, sorry.

Yes. Gold? I believe in workers' rights but not that much. Right, right. Okay, so you give her how much gold? Let's start with like 10. Yeah.

Okay, she is like effusively thankful. There we go. And like, maybe we should have started with five. Thank you so much. Three. I mean, the only places

that we aren't allowed to go to are the the warehouse in the back and like that's just we just drop off boxes and we don't really know what they're supposed to do but nobody can go in there warehouse uh as far as the like where the cd's as far as the servants as far as the rooms upstairs i mean there's there's there's our there's my lady's chamber there's uh my lord's chamber and then there's the guestrooms that that's all and where is my lady we we were looking forward to making our introduction but we didn't we didn't see her at the ball clutch uh i'm not at liberty to say

Hey, my lady. Spell her. Felt her. It's time for us to take more drastic measures. We need to do a spell. Oh, boy. We got spells in there. Let's see.

Okay, enemies are grouped chasing or blocking a path. The party needs chaos, backup, or a terrifying distraction. Enemies need to be held down and placed or slowed down. You don't have like a hypnotizing spell? You have that perception one. That like, true the cloud thoughts. What have the cloud thoughts? Oh, the, can I use that?

again? How much time is passed? It's been a day. It's been a day. I'm going to detect thoughts again. Okay, great. Detect thoughts again. It's like you're pulling a cloud. Don't mention Jimas. Don't mention Jimenez. You can see as plain as day in her mind that O'Dady's mother

has stayed in her room for weeks. So she's in the room. Weeks. And is currently there. Okay. We need to free her. Can we see which room? Well, it's her room. Her room. Do you remember her?

Oh, the ladies chamber. Okay. The ladies' chambers, yeah. It's frankly, it's hubris to keep her in her own room. Right. So. They're not ready for us. Okay.

So you found out what you need to know. They're not ready for us. So I'm going to cut to O'Dady. Let's do that. Right. Right now. You're investigating. So you could recognize your mother's horse?

Well, I have to cast the speak with animals to find which horse is hers. Correct. Okay. So I will cast a spell. Right. You don't need to roll. You just cast it. I cast a spell.

Read off what it says. It says, you gain the ability to comprehend. and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. It's 10 minutes long. The nine minutes is the, I don't know if you heard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters,

including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor with you for you at the GM's description. Great. Amazing. Okay. All right. So you, there's a stable of like three horses.

Okay. So I roll up on the most immaculate stable, which is clearly the king's horse. Okay, so you want to find the king's horse. I want to find the king's horse. I'm not sure which one would be the queen's horse, but I want to find a king's horse.

Okay. I'm going to talk to the king's horse. All right. So you approach one. Yes. And it's just standing there. Let's hear that. Let's hear you speak some horse.

Okay. Okay. And to the horses that are speaking, it sounds like, what are you trying to say? How are you guys doing? What's going on? Are you the horse just talk like to say? Are you the, kind of, are you the, would you happen to be the horse of the king? Well, I am.

Nice. Wow, that's a Mr. Ed's thing. And with the peanut butter and the, yeah. You are, I have to say, a mighty steed. Oh, well-backed. Oh, like. Like Patrick? Like, Patrick?

Like how mighty are we? Yeah, super mighty. And, like, if the king were going to choose any horse, it would clearly be you. Well, thank you. Which horse around here might be the horse of the queen? Oh, that's messy next to me. Oh, thank you very much. I'm sorry you have to miss the party.

What party? Never mind. Okay. So next time I go up and talk to her. Okay. All right. Talk to it. Blah, blah.

All right. When was the last time the queen rode you? I hear that you're the queen's horse. Oh, no, he's not. Yeah, it's a lady. Is it a lady horse? Yeah, Bessie. Do women always ride lady horses?

You're nice. Oh, yeah, it's Bessie. That's true. Well, she hasn't written me in years. Years. Oh, no. That's tough. Oh, my goodness.

I find that hard to believe because from my childhood, what I remember is that, oh, I can't say that. I find what I hear is that the queen loved nothing more than to take long pastoral rides throughout the countryside. She doesn't do that anymore. That is true. She doesn't. She's been in her room for so long. This is really hard.

Ever since a few years ago, her husband has been unruly saying different languages. Things I don't understand. Gotta kill him. Speaking to the horses and rough languages. Demonic tongues. Plains that I don't understand. Uh-oh. She's not herself.

Is her husband abusive to the animals around here? Ooh, sorry. Somewhat. Not to me. But I've seen him. We must kill him. We have to. At the jeopardy of safety.

Just so I know. Approximately, how many animals are here on this state? I'm talking pigs, cows, horses, chickens. I mean, how many animals are totaled? Dogs, cats. I feel like you're getting lost in the sauce. No, no, no, no, no, no. How many animals are here?

there were ones many now there are a few once? Now there are only us and are you noble steeds ready to rise up against your oppressor man you're asking you asking that how many horses are there? Just us three? Ah, they were fucked

okay hey don't have the numbers guess what I have you don't have the numbers some oats that I managed to swipe on my way in here have these oats do we have any apples and spread them around I wish I did that... They go crazy for the else.

They love it. Thank you so much. It's been so long since we've had a proper meal. What a guy. You're welcome and I will be back for you. Wonderful. Some outs. Sounds like we got an extra challenge.

We cut back to Leo. Yeah, on the dance floor. Wanting to pass without the trace or no? I mean, do I know that she's up in the bedroom? You don't know that. We need a way to share all this information with each other. We need a way to share the information. I think we have to.

I think it's group dance time. Group dance time. It's the Cupid Chuffle. All right. Oh, very special. To the left. Yeah. Now, I'm very disturbed.

Right. But I dance. You come back to the party, though. And you guys got to raise my spirit. Right. Okay. I'm also going to be. Brought it by yourself.

Okay. Okay. Great. Keep going. Okay. So we learned. So we are dancing and sharing all of our information. Yes.

You recant all that information. Cool. So we learned that. She is in her own quarters. Right. We learned something suspicious about a warehouse that the servants are not allowed to go to. So while O'Dadi's mom might be in her quarters not the warehouse,

something is in the warehouse that we need to deal with. That seems clear. So now what is the... There's a snake in the way. Like, what's the objective? Poison the waterhole. Right. What's the big, do we get the mom and get out or...

But there's also the dead animals, the missing animals. And that weird little nugget, which you've just shared with us, about all of the different languages. Is King Larry also insorcelled in some way? So here's the situation here. It really makes no sense to go get mom right now because what does freeing mom do us? We need a way to get out after that. Because if we free mom, then mom, if she just become one of our group?

Wait, wait. I mean, you don't want to hang with your mom? I do, but like. There's a bigger fish. There's a bigger fish. It's still in peril. There's always a bigger fish. I can make your mom invisible and get her out if you want.

But where are we gonna go? It seems like there's a deeper sort of situation here. I can get your mom out and have Jesse escort her elsewhere. How many of us have a visibility? Wait, wait, wait. We all just watch in the warehouse right now. We want a dual op. We want a dual op.

One op to free mom. And one to the warehouse. And one to the warehouse. Okay, who has invisibility? I have it. You have it. Who else has it? I don't have invisibility.

Okay, we're using invisibility on each other. We're sneaking into the warehouse. We're gonna find out. We're going recommission to the warehouse. Fuck my plan to get mom, I guess. You can go get it. You can use invisibility on someone else. Yeah.

Okay, so, you use it on me? She wanted to use invisibility on the mom. So you gotta go get mom. So get Jesse out. Well, then you guys got to split up. And Talia and Talia and I need to make, I can only make one person invisible. They have to go to the warehouse alone.

Wait, who has invisibility? I do and you do. Yeah. Okay, well, you have invisibility. You got to use it on mom. Yeah. And then you guys, since gotta go to the warehouse, because you need towel in case it goes left.

Only one of us can be invisible, I think, right? Is that right? I can use it. A creature you touch, you touch. You can also touch yourself. Oh, that's what I'm talking about. I touch myself. Indeed.

Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target's person. Spell ends for a target that attacks or cast a spell. I also have spider climb so I can climb on walls. There you go. Read that sheet. You can spot a climb to the roof. These are all my spells? Yeah.

Why don't I climb on the ceiling? You can. Okay. But you got to discreetly do that. I'm going to disguise myself, which I can do. Again? Yeah. Okay.

Ooh, I can. As a member of the household staff. Mm-hmm. So that I can go upstairs. Okay. Roll a wisdom check for me real quick. I would love to do that. I'm so smart.

I figured this. I figured it out. Okay. This is all going to work. Okay. That works. It works. Okay.

Plus your bonus. Um, two. Okay. So you know that this is going to break the clothing spell that you have right now. That's not true? Wait, why? Fighting, not magic. You use magic, though, but it's going to cancel out the magic that you've already put on yourself.

What the hell? Wait, wait, wait, wait. So if we cast anything? I just use magic to talk to the goddamn fucking horse. No, but this is literally changing your clothes. Oh, disguising. Disguising. This is literally changing your clothes.

If I use Pass without a trace, am I? Damn. No, no, no, no, no. You're fine. Okay. Okay. So you got to go get mom. Shoot.

I got to go get my mom. God damn it. She's dead. I've been a great soldier this entire time. It's calm down. It's calm down. Incredible. Just hope there's no women on the way up there to go get the goddamn mom.

By the way, by the way, I hope that you don't take a liking to my mom too much. I don't trust it. Leo. Let's go five mom. Okay. I figured out I'm using my invisibility power on Tali. So that Talia can go to the warehouse. And I am on myself casting minor illusion.

Okay. So I will basically look like the landscape that Talia is moving past. And we will both be able to get to the warehouse together. Does that not cancel out her clothing? It's an illusion. It's not technically changing my clothes. We're in the warehouse. Okay.

Now, depending on what you guys see at the warehouse, you got to let me know because if need be, we have to fuck this party. I can speak to small beasts. I can send a rat with a message to you because you can also speak to animals. As our flying bat. That's true. I could do that as well. Yeah. Now, if this all goes bad, what I'm going to do is send all the fucking horses into the middle of the party.

All three? All three of the horses to disrupt the fucking party. And then we blow this whole thing up and then we have to escape in the melee. Okay. Okay. First things first. We can use my book to escape. We're getting mom.

Pass without a trace. Passed out of trace. All right, great. Read that off for me real quick. I'm going to join a local D&D league. We have, this is our lead. You said this last time. I know, but this is fun.

Let's just do this more. Yeah. We'll just do this more. All right, a veil of shadows and silence radiates from you, masking you and your companions. I asked if I could mask my companions. You said no. I didn't read this part.

Oh. You said it. Oh, daddy, do you want to come with us? For the duration of the creature you choose within 30 feet from you, including yourself, has a plus 10 bonus to dexterity, stealth checks, and can't be tracked except by magical means. Yeah. A creature that receives this bonus leaves behind no tracks or

traces of its passage. So not necessarily invisible, but if you want to sneak past them or... These are not the droids you're looking for. Yeah, yeah. This is basically like a Jedi mind trick, slip away from somebody in a conversation. If I cast it before I get the mom, will she be enveloped into...

Yes. Okay, great. Okay. So then... Do we think it's a bad idea? And this lasts for one hour. And mind you, this is a concentration spell. So what you have to do is basically, as you are casting it, you have to focus your mind. Leo! You can't get distracted. and cannot be distracted.

So you know what I'm going to do. Hey, oh, daddy. They're going to be hot. How hot is your mom? Let's be real. She looks really good. Let's be real. Think like Hallie Berry at 60.

That's mom's real. Oh, no. That's why the kingdom was always up and arms over her and stuff like that. Right. Leo stay strong. We're doomed. So the first thing you got to do. It sounds like it might be over.

So it's Leo and Rye? No, no. Ryan Tully. We're on the way of the warehouse. Yeah, they're on the way to warehouse. The rescuing mom. First, you've got to get past these guards. Are you going to, what are you going to say to them?

They're right at the threshold of the stairs. It's pass without whatever, right? Where's the bathroom at? I heard the bathroom was right there. I got, I'm going to use a bathroom. And then you, and roll for, I guess this would be 13. I got a plus. And so then you have a plus 10 bonus to stealth.

Okay. So 13 plus. Yeah, no. So, okay. Basically, like, what the guard is. What the guards will see is, like, you briefly come into their site and they're just like, hey, I just got to use the best, and then gone. I'm gone. And they're like, the fuck.

And they don't notice anything else. Notice nothing. Right. So you walk up the stairs. You see three doorways. Right. And then a guard stationed at one of those doorways. Right.

You will. Okay. So we know which one it is. Right. Right. Okay. So which one do you want to approach? Obviously, I'm guessing.

The one with the guard. The one with the guard, I would imagine. And you would like to say something, do something? Hey, big dog. I heard the bathroom in there. Can we go use the rest of me? We work the first time. He's like, ah, there's no bathroom here.

That's downstairs. Oh, wow. Well, somebody told me it was in here. Who's around? Take them out. No, no fighting. That's right. No fighting.

No, but I heard this one had a good one. It had a bidet in there. And I, like, you know what I'm saying? Y'all, y'all got one plight in here, so I really need to use specific bathroom. You're going to try to charisma that? of it. He's really not going, he's not going for it. He's like, again, this is not the bathroom. Dropping the fucking ball again. Can I hit Charm person on them? Are you're there as well? Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Sure. Go for it. Oh, then why is Leo talking?

Anybody can chime in if they're there. Oh, Daddy, do you have anything you want to say? As someone with inside information on the palace? Are you also here? I'm with you guys. Yeah. Okay. So all of you are there. Yeah. Okay. So you're acting like he's in the bathroom. You're going to. to charm him? Oh yeah, I have to charm. You're there? I guess I'm there.

Yeah. Leo's taking a shit. Hopefully no one hot is around. He deadlocks his eyes on you. Uh-oh. I'm doing charm person. Charm person. Okay. Yeah. 10 plus three. 10 plus three. So that's 13. Successful charm. Okay, yeah, that's a successful charm.

Yeah. He's like, you guys need the bathroom? Yes. Okay. I mean, it's downstairs, but I don't know why you would want to come in here. Oh, I heard this was a really nice one, though, with those Japanese toilets. I mean, it's the water. I can show you here. It's this.

Excellent chamber. It's just the old lady in her bedroom. He opens the door. Okay. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Well, just use this one. We'll be so quick and quiet.

Okay. Everybody roll for stealth. Oh, brutal. 15. 19. 19. 2. Two.

I'm plus 2. In stealth. So that's a four. It's not great. Well, no, you get a plus 10 from the bonus of pass without a trace. 14. 14.

Nice. We're crushing this, to be honest with you. So he's like, well, wait, where'd you go? And then the moment that he, like, kind of realizes what's happened, you've closed the door behind you, and you're in the room. Is he going to sound an alarm? No, he's forgotten. I mean.

Jedi Mindtrick. You don't really know because you're in the room and the door's closed. I charmed him and we Jedi mind tricked him. In the room, you see, O'Daddy's mother. She's hot. Basically. staring blankly into a mirror and when they do that

brushing her hair seemingly infinitely. Like Beatrice horse? This is sad. That's brutal. What do you want to do? Can we use one of our healing potions on her? I know what I want to do. Will it work? I know what I want to do. I want to drop my disguise. Yeah. Let her see her side. So you want to break the illusion of your

We can't wait until we're free? No. I want to because I want to break her spell And I feel like the only thing that can do it is if I drop my disguise. Okay, so you will willingly drop your disguise. You'll approach your mom. What do you want to do? Well, no, she's just, she's sat.

Looking into the mirror. This is why I'm going to do it. She's going to see you approach to the mirror. So she's in the mirror herself, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's looking at herself. So the shot is from behind her. Right, yeah.

You don't see you come into frame. Uh-huh. I was like in contact. We like we come back and as we come back, we see me basically come into frame right in front of her to block her version of herself in the mirror. Instead of seeing her reflection. Oh, oh yeah, you obfuscate her own. The next thing that she sees is me. Okay.

Beautiful. Okay. So. Beautiful. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's beautiful.

Okay. Well, without breaking her gaze and stride. Without breaking her gaze, she's just like, she kind of just like thinks somberly and like looks off into the distance and then just kind of stops and sits. But doesn't say anything. Bullshit. Nothing happens. Oh, that sucks.

Do any of us have any kind of break enchantment sort of thing? Collectively, couldn't we use our friendship. She's just sitting there. She's not doing anything. Say something to her. Well, can I talk to her? Yeah. Okay.

This is what I will say to her. I will say, this room looks a lot different than the last time that I was in it. The last time I was in this room, the conversation was you asking me not to leave. And I did leave and I'm sorry. Wow. But what I didn't tell you that day is I was never going to stay gone forever. I'm back. Everything is going to be okay.

I love you, Mom. Come back to me. Okay, so you say that and you're still like in the shot with the mirror. And then like that first of all, beautiful. Beautiful. You're in the shot with the mirror. Like, everybody kind of, like, feels a certain, like, tension in the room, like, alleviate. And there's a, like, it's as if the room was just hit with air conditioning.

Like, there's, like, a coolness and calmness that enters the room. And the mirror that she is looking into just, like, kind of, like, warps and bends ever so slightly. Oh, boy. Magic mirror. And it then shatter. Shatter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it a loud chatter?

And as... Well, actually... Oh, shit. Come on. My lady's cheaper has really soft carpet. I'm sure it was... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

So, to you, it sounds kind of loud, but nothing happens. Okay. And she looks back up and looks directly at O'Dady, and she bursts into tears. Ha! Immediately hugs him,

and she says, promise you'll never leave. Yeah. Well, I have to say, well, I'll promise I'll never leave, but we have to leave right now. We gotta go. Yes, take me there. And so you want to escape? What's the plan now?

We're in the warehouse. I'm making her. Okay, wait. We got to go to the- Real quick. I'm making her invisible. Okay, great. Going to quick cut to the warehouse.

Yeah, great. You guys, so it's an interesting, like, invisibility slash, like, illusion combo going on here. We should trimit this up an option. You guys make your way into the warehouse, and it is, like, dark torch and candle lit, like mounds of boxes and just, like, inexplicable crates, kind of being stacked in odd ways.

But as you make your way through this warehouse, you see guards that, let me roll the pet past you. They think they see you, but they don't. They're, like, kind of passing. so they continue their patrol. Inside, you see, remember the teleportation save that you saw in Bill's office? We'll never forget

anything that happened. In Bill's basement. This is ten times that size. It is taking up basically the entirety of, if you were to look directly above you, the entirety of the dance floor. Where are we setting those boxes? Are we going to transport all the noble somewhere? Are they transporting

all the guests? You don't know what that you don't know what it is. Both of you roll an arcane check. Are they going to move the dance floor like in I have an A Wonderful Life plus your What are we adding to that? Plus your wisdom One

Eight so that's I got an eight So I have a nine total Okay so you vaguely remember for when you set up that teleportation stave before That it was an arrangement of stones Yes That we got to turn it on

These are These seem to be placed in what you think are the right places But it's so big that you actually can't tell How many stones that are needed So you can't quite tell if this is like in development You know that this is very powerful magic that is still yet to be built And it doesn't seem complete to you

Okay That's really that's all you see Sounds like this might be for the next campaign Might be interesting Can you just pocket a couple of those rocks? Yeah, what if we just took some of the stones? You take some rocks? That way they're missing key elements and they can't activate the stave

Yeah, all right Great quick cut to The bedroom You guys are evacuating mom? I have made O'Daddy's Hot Mom Invisible. Hot Mom Invisible. Run a concentration check on Leo. 13.

Proud of you, Leo. Genuinely very proud of you. Okay, great. Blocked it. Wonderful. So you guys open the door past the guard. Thank you so much for letting us use a restroom. I so appreciate it.

Oh, I mean, I certainly hope you didn't go in there. That's just the lady's. bedroom or whatever. Like, it's not... Wait, is that... Is there not an onsuit in the bedroom? Oh, well, I mean, I guess that's fine. But you know who I can ask?

Larry. And he points directly next to you and... Oh, Daddy's stepfather, Larry, is right next to the guard. This is fucked. Smiling. And he dropped his... God damn it. Oh, welcome back, son.

And with that, we will end... Oh! Whoa! And we will see you on the next episode. Roodle. A ringer quest. Clithanger. The thing about Larry, he's always where you least expect him to be.

Exactly. What a clip hanger? So, with that you will end, we would like to thank our crew once again. Thank you so much to allais Zanaris, Jonathan Ratlis, Jacob Cordette, Ryan Todd. You want to know what happens to this? Kevin Cuehry and Chris Thomas, Devin Beraldi, Scott Lee, and Arjunot, Ramgo Powell. We will see you next time on Ringar Quest.

In a little over a year. You're going to have to do it sooner. Give us some time. We have to do it. What happens next?