“Get behind my thumb for safety!”

BBEG

The demise of Alister.

• 01:35:24 Grawnoth:“The Virtuous were not victorious. There was a truce called. Long ago, in Sentiasa, in the plane before (which was always and endless and plentiful) the gods (first The Vile and then the others) saw that footsoldiers could turn the tide of the conflict and so they began to create and to breed and this is how we find ourselves here. But as they created, the gods (all of them) realized that their own power was contained within those they bred. As they multiplied and spread and fought and died and were renewed, so the power of the gods faded. There came a time that they saw that the power of mortality combined was greater than the power of those gods. So it was agreed that the planes would be split; barriers placed between them so that mortality could not ever unite under one banner and destroy those who brought them into being. The Virtuous created Reliquiae, The Wild created the Fae Wild, and The Vile created the Shadowfell.
  The tree beyond (I have no doubt you would have seen it) is the Feywild. Beyond futher, the Shadowfell.”
  Raidion:“Reliquiae is a lie.” (and strikes again)
• 01:38:47 I:“You know who is The Child?” Grawnoth has no knowledge of this.
  100 years ago, the gods began to fade (The Virtuous faster than before). They decided when they created Reliquiae that their penance for the crimes they had committed upon their people was that they would allow them to flourish uninhibited. Knowing that they would one day fade themselves (as their power was diminished by those they brought into being), they made Alvelion an open city. They trained. They knew that their absence would come and they wanted those people to flourish.
  (On that unknown day) 100 years ago there was a sudden change in them, a weakening almost overnight. It was then that they abandoned Alvelion, seeing their condition they did not want their people to fear the weakening of their gods and so they made their home in Atria. We started The Deference so that only we could see them, only we could speak with them, and understand their teachings so that no fear, no panic would grip the people. Perhaps it is this child. Perhaps the child is a demigod.
• 01:46:50 Alex remembers the damage the cards dealt and puts his head in his hands as if to say “Ben are you really about to kill the dying, kindly old priest with your cursed item?”
• 01:48:42 Grawnoth explains that Genevieve and the other Antiqua are likely in the human capital of Caressian and also they are unhappy with his plans to inform the Council of Equals of the events on Mt Atria. Additionally:
  • Parvus would’ve gone to The Sanctum (a tower on an island known to be a seat of dragonborn power/authority, they are a smaller population) along with Carvilius.
  • Roona would’ve returned to Brack
  • Malakine to Vale
  • Arbuthnot to Pondin
  • Barabask to Escalon
  • Damilo (halfling) has perished
• 01:51:22 Grawnoth:“You cannot hold back a tide alone, but you had a right to know. Many more will be told. You were the first (outside of the Antiqua) to see. It was right to me that you were the first to know.”
  more gentle bedside manner from Raidion
  Raidion:“We’re tied to this. We’re going to be alone. We’re underpowered and you are going to die.”
• 01:52:50 The leader of the Council of Equals is an orc named Trusk (a name one of the masked forest crew wanted to “bleed”)
• 01:55:45 Grawnoth:(to Raidion)“You are impulsive. You worry me.”
• 01:56:50 Raidion:“He is dying. He will be dead in-”
  Harry:“He is in the room…”
• 01:57:00 Kelnys:“Grawnoth, as a Druid of the Circle of the Wildfire, please accept my promise that we will do what we can to stop this happening.”
• 01:58:25 Grawnoth confides to “I” that he doesn’t believe that Themself was responsible for what happened on Mt Atria.
• 02:01:21 Lore Drop The Old Dark: The place where Kobolds are thought to have come into existence. There are versions of the story where it is a tangible place and versions where it’s a metaphor.
• 02:02:50 Grawnoth gives permission for the team to speak to the Council on his behalf.
• 02:06:35 Raidion pouting as visibly as possible poking around at objects around the study. “He’s walking for the back row…Is no one going to ask me what I’m thinking?!”
  silence
• 02:09:35 Endellion:“I wonder if The Web has more information.”
  Dolly:“Of course it does. It’s The Web.”
  Raidion:“They wouldn’t tell us anything.”
  Dolly:“Of course they wouldn’t. It’s The Web.”
• 02:10:10 Dolly:“Raidion, for gods sake stop pacing and just say what it is that you’re thinking.”
  Raidion: lets out a breath like he's been holding it for a contest “Thank you!”
• 02:12:27 Raidion:(to Endellion)“…and you’re just grumpy all the time.”
  Endellion:“Cheap, coming from you.”
  Raidion:“I think I’ve taken enough licks today, thank you.”
  Endellion:“Hot heads and fast words.”
• 02:23:17 Subtle music change. Cool bells section.
• 02:25:57 “I’ve seen the film.”
• 02:29:13 Harry:“…but there was a kind of lackadaisical-”
  Hollie:“Love that word.”
• 02:33:18 Alex has “I” wave and grin at the clerk while Aoife rolls a natural 20 on persuasion to get them an audience with the High Advocate Trusk.
  “You must be Pamela…”
  Ben can hardly contain his enthusiasm for a while.
• 02:37:48 Dolly recognizes the halfling guide as Riodhir Grenweard, the Reeve (lord/primary landowner) of the town of Mouse.
• 02:40:25 Hollie:“Wind’s howling” (Witcher catchphrase)
• 02:44:32 Trusk describes Rashiid as an interesting missionary advocating for underrepresented rural populations.
• 02:50:01 Trusk:“They came down. They gave the messages from the gods like they always do.”
  Raidion:“Except they didn’t.”
  The smile on Harry’s face.
• 02:50:41 Raidion:“Your god is dead.”
• 02:56:22 Short DM break
• 02:58:35 Dolly:“You can’t go around telling people the gods are dead.” Mean Girls reference.
• 03:02:11 Harry:“Roll me persuasion or deception. Don’t tell us which one.”
• 03:09:45 “I” is still in the “I love my mummy” shirt and it must be part of accurate fan art for the serious governmental beauracracy dialogues.
• 03:11:50 “He wants to see you…The Spider Prince…”

♪Episode Song References♪

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• 00:11:57 Sweeney Todd Musical - Green Finch and Linnet Bird
• 02:17:04 “she can dance” Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

Highlights

• 00:09:55 You hear a voice. A male voice. You think it could be Raidion.
  Endellion:“Hmm. Not my favorite…”
• 00:10:57 Raidion sings under pressure?
• 00:13:20 Endellion heads to Casper’s hideout for reinforcement.
  Great reaction from Alex. His visual enthusiasm is a sure sign of an invested player.
• 00:14:02 Music Change! The four of you are waist-deep in detritus and waste (shit). As you approached, you saw these various cultivations that are starting to spread out from the city. This is an area where, clearly, no one wants to live to close to it. So you have a little bit of privacy for now.
  Essentially it flows out into this wide, shallow, rancid reservoir.
  You can see some of the shanty towns have been there for quite a while. The city is about 100 years old and you reckon it probably would have met its capacity about 50 years ago (in terms of the housing they have there). There’s no reason why some of these smaller areas (that are closest to the city walls) couldn’t have sprung up 50 years ago and so have been there for quite a long time. You can see smoke curling out of chimneys. There’s signs of life. There’s torches lit. Like the streets of a village, think of them as a series of villages that are outside. It stands to reason while you can’t immediately see anything that there would be wells. There would need to be a facility for these people to have fresh water.
• 00:17:42 “I” obtains a novelty children’s shirt that says “I love my mummy and my mummy loves me.”
• 00:20:21 Raidion gets some cloth to fashion a baboushka hood
• 00:21:47 Raidion:“Not our problem.”
  Dolly:“Our fault, but not our problem.”
• 00:22:10 Fan Art Moment “I” speaks for the first time in a while uttering only the word “misadventure” in his children’s shirt
• 00:25:21 The hideout magic fails for Endellion and she realizes that she’ll have to wait in the dark now.
  Endellion:“Shit.”
• 00:29:14 Harry:“…and speaking of having been through enough crap, we cut back to the other four of you.”
• 00:31:05 Kelnys:“I eat weird things in the woods all the time.”
  Kelnys obtains “grey meat” covered in paprika.
• 00:33:42 Harry:“Okay, you smell two things. First you smell the faded smell of things that have been in people and that have come out the other side. Then you smell something that shouldn’t go in a person.”
• 00:34:30 The grey meat is disposed of and the smell of burnt hair and paprika fill the hideout
• 00:35:06 Casper:“How’d you get out?”
  Dolly:“How do you think?”
  Casper:“Poo pipe?”
• 00:45:00 Raidion’s tragic and mysterious backstory
• 00:46:40 Raidion finally whips his deck out
• 00:50:00 The Council of Equals is the government of Baruun. Rather than it being an autocracy what happens is almost like aldermen (sort of tribal or political elders from various places; like mayors almost, are elected and then they serve for five years on the Council of Equals. They’re all called “advocates” and the “High Advocate” is the minister in charge. They serve for five years and then they’re replaced, so you never get the idea of people staying for too long.
  Casper explains that there was a dwarf on the council, Rashiid. A month ago he went missing. In lieu of an election, they drew lots from all the land owners. Grenweard’s was the name that was pulled. (Casper fails to pronounce another name starting with R-I, then mentions something Endellion is familiar with named Mouse (a small town to the southeast). No one knows anything about him yet. He’s such a minor noble, the family people don’t even know the family crest. They’re still trying to work on his seal. We hear rumors that he’s trying to make himself of use, but doesn’t realize he’s part of running the largest city in the now. You know? He’s not running three fields, sheep, and a tanner’s
• 00:54:08 Casper:“…there’s a son, don’t know the name.”
  Endellion:“Yeah, there’s a lot of sons (speaking of her brothers back in Mouse).”
  Casper:“Bit of a beefy lad, a bit dim.”
  Endellion:“Could still be any one of them.”
• 00:56:20 Tribal spoon gift
• 00:56:36 Endellion cheers “I” up with a bit of magic
• 01:01:12 After stashing his deck in Dolly’s bag, Raidion meditates to his favorite Elven Trance Music
• 01:03:05 Raidion’s half-hearted apology
• 01:04:11 A wild Doug Cockle appears!
• 01:06:45 What you would know (those of you who’ve been here before) is that the three tiers of the city are split along class lines to an extent. You have The Depths, which is heavy industry (a few people would live there, but that was not what that area was created for; it was there to keep the crap away from peoples’ lungs and such. You’r working class, laborers, and your industrial workers (poeple who are mass-producing armor or weapons). They would live in these sprawling towns that are outside the city walls.
  Then, where you are at the moment, The Deal, it would be Artisans. Then the prime real estate in Baruun is closest to the exterior walls because you get more light. you’d have the estates of notable scribes and low-level town officials. Ombudsmans (i don’t know exactly what it means, but it’s such a good collection of sounds) who would have their estates there.
  Then up in The Crest, which is the very top, that is where there’s this extraordinary suspended park with a lake in its center. There are estates of the rich and powerful. There are separate plazas that are accesed by walkways. It would stand to reason that the Council of Equals (which is the government of Baruun) that is positioned up at the crest. The major religious sites would be positioned up there. It stands to reason that Grawnoth would be somewhere up in The Crest. I also think that’s more than reasonable that he would have told you of his destination.
• 01:10:07 Raidion feels comfortable enough to whip out his strange deck and show it to his companions
• 01:11:11 Simply touching the pouch containing the deck causes “I” to take psychic damage
• 01:11:37 Ben describes something similar to intense umami flavor reactions.
• 01:14:19 Alex:“Out of character (OOC), I touch the bag.”
  Hollie:“‘I’ the me, not the character.”
  Alex:“Dammit! It was Right There, Alex!”
• 01:15:30 Ben Starr, hand model for the mysterious deck of cards
• 01:19:01 One more magic trick for “I” before we leave. Kelnys’ high passive perception lets him in on the gag.
• 01:20:50 Ben’s “triple-take” head swivel may be him insinuating that Endellion and Casper had a flirty farewell.
• 01:23:23 Onward to Grawnoth’s estate
• 01:25:02 Alex:“‘I’ steps forward and puts a hand on Raidion…”
  Harry:“-says fade.”
  Alex:“Goddamn, that’s good!”
• 01:25:53 Patreon Ad featuring teasers for Endellion’s Diary, Klaaks the Broken Pebble, early access to Action Surge! and more! “What do you say? Me, you, some baths, some skiing? Some hog wrestling? Tesco’s? Come on.”
• 01:28:18 You were taken in through the gates into a courtyard which leads to a small humble single story building (which is Grawnoth’s residence). You’re led through these double doors. Embossed into the floor is a set of golden scales (balancing scales) much like the ones you saw tarnished and twisted in Ullin’s tower. There’s a small wooden font with a foot pedal, again, the type that you saw. Brunhilda turns to the five of you and says,
  “I will take you to see him. He is very tired.”
  She leads you through a doorway and then into a study which is full of scrolls and books. There’s a chair that was once black leather, but has been patched and repaired innumerable times, so it’s more patches than it is anything else at this point. An ancient-looking desk carved from a single piece of wood, broad with spilled ink speaking to centuries, even millenia of use. Then a curtain beyond.
  Brunhilda opens this curtain and at the far end of this space is a window which looks out towards the sky and Reliquiae beyond. The drapes are half-closed and there’s a great four-poster bed. Sat in that bed, propped up on pillows, is Grawnoth. There’s dust hanging in sunbeams as they come through the window and there’s a sense of stillness in the air. The smell of beeswax, pine needles, and fresh linen. Before him on the bed are strewn papers. A quill and ink on a bed table beside him. As you look at Grawnoth he’s changed. The piercing blue of his eyes has faded almost to gray. His hair and beard are white and thinning. He raises a hand in greeting to you and you see his fingers are crooked and arthritic. His knuckles are swollen and his cheeks have thinned. His eyes are ringed with red and when he breathes in, you can hear his breath ragged in his chest.
  You notice Brunhilda doesn’t want to spend too long looking at the figure in the bed. She says,
  “They have come as you said they would. I will leave you to your discussions. You call for me if you need me.”
• 01:32:49 Raidion:“You’re dying.” (Mr “Your gods are dead” strikes again)
• 01:33:50 “I” produces the letter indicating Barabask’s betrayal for Grawnoth.

(continued)

♪Episode Song References♪

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• 02:43:18 Like that Alanis Morissette song Alanis Morissette - Ironic
• 03:25:39 “had it comin’” Chicago - Cellblock Tango (He Had It Comin’)

Highlights

• 00:00:24 Harry makes a Matt Coleville reference “link in the old doobly-doo”
• 00:01:11 Perfect introductions until “Thornblair”
  Politics and Gossip Girl
• 00:01:48 Hollie:“That Gossip Girl one shot we’re gonna do.”
  Ben’s enthusiastic reaction.
• 00:02:07 Alex:“Always got the ‘yang’ out” (foreshadowing of nude Doug stories to come)
• 00:08:54 Alex:“Let’s go with claws.”
  Dolly entrusts I with a Greater Healing Potion.
• 00:10:15 “Let me tell you something about hiding a body.”
• 00:12:58 Ben’s attempt to use metric measurements is thwarted.
• 00:18:20 As everyone is getting into position and settling inventory items, Harry says, “I’m just going to roll something.”
• 00:20:37 Fan Art Moment I using the magical cloak as a hammock in a nearby tree.
• 00:22:35 Raidion lets his guard down enough to seek space with I in the hammock, “Don’t. Tell. Anyone.”
  The logistics of the hammock roll I onto Raidion (and much like with a cat on one’s lap) and becomes “what you would refer to as ‘nap-trapped’.”
• 00:24:59 Intruder detected, hoods up.
• 00:25:30 Music change
• 00:26:43 The contact arrives and Dolly slyly casts charm person.
• 00:29:38 Kelnys asks a masked person their name…
• 00:34:12 A miscommunication between I and Raidion
• 00:39:28 Harry:…or you could just, sort of, turn into a newt; Yeah, you could Wildshape into a newt, if you want."
  Doug:There’s part of me that thinks that I should just kill her."
• 00:41:23 Aoife:“And then, flex.”
  Alex gives inspiration to Doug.
  Hollie and Ben resume meerkat poses, this time with claws.
• 00:44:34 Harry’s dice are on a hot streak.
• 00:44:44 Harry:“Like when a particular character in a particular thing is cutting through the particular webs of a particular spider near a particular mountain carrying a particular ring…”
• 00:45:48 Harry:“Yeah.” (smiling as he realizes they don’t know that Endellion is going to completely one-shot this masked stranger)
• 00:50:33 Doug:“Why didn’t she (the dwarf) have a Scottish accent (common trope).”
  Harry:“She has a Scandinavian accent and I think you’ll find the dwarves have one or the other in my scenes. Did you think Grawnoth was Scottish?”
• 00:53:00 Lore Drop: Baruun, the city of Union When The Virtuous left Alvelion, the capital city of Reliquiae fell into ruin. In the first centuries of the world (when Escalon, Caressian, Loathe and other cities were being founded) the people that populated these were often divided along racial lines. From their seat in Alvelion, The Virtuous warned against this kind of segregation and then those same cities began to open their doors to all. When Alvelion was abandoned, it was decided that they needed a new capital. One that would represent the unity that The Virtuous had always preached.
  Baruun is that capital.
  A three-tiered, circular city (still under construction 100 years after its founding) it’s the most extraordinary architectural and engineering marvel of the world.
  There are three tiers, which are three districts:
  • There’'s The Depths, a lower level in which manufacturing predominantly takes place.
  • Above that is The Deal, which is a site of a great market and much of the housing
  • Above that is The Crest is home to the estates of the Rich and Powerful Beyond the city walls, (there are also these what-were-once shanty towns, but have now become districts in their own right as the city has grown but the walls have not been able to accommodate all those people) there’s this sprawling life that spreads out from the city, so by the time you get to the edge of these shanty towns (these new districts, these, if you like, suburbs) you’re still probably an hour away from the walls of Baruun themselves. So vast is the spread of the city that has sprung up from the organic needs of this growing citizenry.
    Those of you who’ve been there before, there are four gates (a North, an East, a South, and a West gate) you can head for whichever one of those, the North or the West would probably be the closest.
• 01:00:36 I:“I knows we is not tribe.”
• 01:01:52 Alex absent-mindedly playing with his new moustache
• 01:02:47 Harry grins and says "should have a look in the packs.
• 01:04:27 Nearby guards are overheard talking about someone named Grenwyrd using authoritarian tactics because of the absence of another person named Rashiid.
• 01:09:20 The graffiti in question reads “The Shadow Will Flood”
• 01:10:15 Raidion’s first instinct is to report to a nearby guard that he has pertinent information on this crime.
  Dolly’s first instinct is to send him the mental question, “What are you doing?!”
  Raidion:“Trust me.” (there goes that teamwork idea already)
• 01:10:53 Alex rolls a third natural 20 in a row (Odds 1 in 8.000; 0.0125%)
• 01:12:29 Raidion reveals one of the silver masks to the guard and explains it’s connection with the party they found (and buried) in the woods.
• 01:13:55 Pop Quiz! Harry turns the creativity on his players, “I’m going to make you roll with disadvantage if you can’t come up with names in the nxt three seconds.”
  Dolly:“Pamela…Call me Pam for short if you like.”
  Harry:“No, you can’t shorten perfection. It’s an enchanting name. You don’t expect to be struck so deeply, but these things catch you when you’re not expecting.”
• 01:17:51 Fan Art Moment Doug:“I think we should see Dolly at some point now in a red one-piece.”
  Doug and Holly mime Baywatch
• 01:18:30 You weave around a central pillar of sandstone as all four of these entrances converge onto a single great staircase. The slabs so thick that the cacophany of the Depth swiftly fades. The walls of this stair are carved and painted with a message that’s written over and over again. You see it written in Infernal, Draconic, Elvish, Gnomish, and in Common. The message says:

By the hands of those shaped by The Virtuous, that a city might grow in their image.

written over and over again on the inside. You climb 50 ft ascending into The Deal (the second level of the city).

• 01:29:15 The Manscaped Ad
• 01:31:31 We go back into Reliquiae. Into the city of Baruun. Into The Deal (the second tier of the city) and outside the Wise Walker Tavern, where Raidion has just seen half of a Web symbol. An orc with a hood looking at that symbol, looking at Raidion, he reaches out his hand and says to Dolly,
  “Come with me.”
• 01:32:28 Hollie’s reaction when the key phrase gets a response
• 01:34:25 Fan Art Moment While on Endellion’s shoulders and holding a massive beer, “I” tries to explain the concept of high chairs to the local tavern staff.
• 01:36:10 Kelnys:“We live differently.”
  Barkeep:“Right, and that’s between you and The Virtuous.”
• 01:39:48 Orc(Casper):“I’m going to have to stop you, my dear chap. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Who do you think I am?”
  [Holly and Aoife perform the Pointing Spider-Man Meme]
• 01:42:15 Iesco’s Tinctures, Salves & Solutions
• 01:45:11 “The quiet one’s Goff.”
• 01:48:45 An asset of the Web was imprisoned after a bar fight and the mission is to break them out.
• 01:51:18 Harry:“If you want to try and discern he is (telling the truth) you can always roll an Insight”
  Ben shakes his head.
  Harry:“You just wanna go off vibes.”
• 01:52:43 Casper:“I’m chapter head, Juno is my second, then Goff and Madea make up the rest of the chapter. We’re a small group.”
• 01:57:18 “I” passes on the Cloak of Many Fashions to Dolly and then immediately acquires a Lockpicking set from Casper without them even realizing it. “Now that bodes very well.”
• 01:58:30 HDYWTDT
• 02:00:42 Casing the joint
• 02:01:59 Raidion:“I have a plan…hear me out…”
• 02:04:45 Hollie clears the room
• 02:11:03 Fan Art Moment Doug decides his first Wildshape with Kelnys will be a cat. Katnys is born. Harry gives a quick clinic on Wildshape and also Disguise Self.
• 02:15:46 Watch Alex have a ball giving the details of the plan as “I”
• 02:20:03 Ben loves that animal pose.
• 02:22:00 Harry:“So you’re Mooching about.”
• 02:29:02 Doug’s cat impression (Doug’s…howling…)
• 02:45:25 Unhinged
• 02:53:35 Stocking up on hinges
• 02:59:11 There’s never a reason to kick a cat
• 03:02:12 Dolly the hardened criminal is brought in
• 03:05:21 Midnight
• 03:12:20 Kelnys is discovered, but by a prisoner, not a guard (natural 6 by Doug)
• 03:13:20 Another Natural 6 by Doug.
• 03:16:08 The guard tells a story about Madea blinding someone with a dagger
• 03:19:11 Dolly Lore Prisoner (Indy) mentions someone else named Knox.
• 03:26:26 “I swear before the Nine, I never seen anything as dark as what she done, you watch her.” (pointing at Madea, the chained halfling).
• 03:26:57 Doug:“I did that once…”
• 03:29:21 “Like Cool Runnings, you slide down there, kiss a lucky egg, and down you go.”
• 03:32:54 Learn Welsh Pam ydw i(vi), Dduw = Why me, God?
• 03:35:43 Kelnys suggests staging a larger prison break to distract from their escape.
• 03:38:12 I happily sees an opportunity to display his lockpicking skills until Raidion reveals he’s acquired the keys, promptly deflating poor I.
• 03:44:33 Madea’s first free actions are to obtain a weapon and murder a nearby prisoner because she “didn’t like the way he looked at me.”
• 03:45:30 Fan Art Moment Kelnys carrying the paralyzed Raidion.
• 03:49:22 Alex rolls two natural 1s in a row while the team escapes in the flume of waste.
  Harry:“You are doing the whole lot, baby.”
• 03:52:06 Madea escapes alone with Kelnys’ scimitar while the rest of the group is launched into the drainage area

I haven’t found a dedicated Dimension20/dropoutTV spot in the Fediverse, so this seems as good a place as any to share

the animatics done for The Ravening War by WolfzieDraws.

A new one just dropped today!

I remember this being the game that ended up having its beta in a torrent because some other place wouldn’t host it.

🎶 We’re villains and black sheep, very bad eggs 🎶

BBEG

Highlights

• 00:40 Harry:“I thought that was flavor, I didn’t think that was a command. So, it’s interesting, I now know that ‘caramel’ is the way to make you go see places.”
• 01:30 Gnomes and I: What’s that about?
• 02:43 Harry:(to Hollie)“You did miss a full round of attacks with advantage on a man stuck in webs. I feel like if Morgan had done that, you would’ve crushed his mini.”
• 02:52 Everything is coming up Endellion, Morgan is gone and plenty of wine was provided.
  
• 07:25 Alex:“I can’t believe this!. This is outrageous!..You have one more hour.”
• 09:09 Just a little Kobold “Slap-Ass”
• 10:25 Raidion’s dilemma of re-learning the world around him.
• 14:00 Harry confirms what we knew about the LotR Strider style choice made by Doug. The high chair becomes The I Chair. Hopefully not at risk of litigation from Apple.
• 17:41 Harry reveals it was a coincidence that their attackers were of races that could be impersonated and it didn’t occur to him that they would wait.
• 19:00 Harry:“So, they were an adapted swashbuckler, archer and berserker.”
• 41:53 The thing that I think is so wonderful as a creative person, about DMing is how it’s creative, collaborative, and by it’s nature imperfect. Were I to obsess about every detail and craft a story (session by session, that works perfectly, that goes seamlessly for me and every beat plays out as I hoped it would) you are not playing D&D. You are listening to story time with Harry. It’s not fun and it’s hugely distances me from you and so the amazing thing is that I don’t have to worry about the “Perfect Session” because we are introducing chaos to it. Not only does that (in a really liberating way I always feel) take the pressure off me.
• 46:26 The Web is what keeps the group sticking together (as a helpful narrative device)
• 47:27 Alex:“The pause was just right.” (That’s just right)

♪Episode Song References♪

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• 00:22:10 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Put Yo Hood Up
• 02:31:44 Evanescence - Bring Me to Life

Highlights

• 00:01:15 Ben recalls how their original plans of being the mature adult in the group has dissolved. “I think we’re all making bad choices, if I’m honest.”
• 00:09:20 Morgan announces his departure and what he will report back to The Spinner.
  Raidion:“We are dead.”
  Morgan:“That makes you more useful to the Web.”
  Endellion:“Good luck, Oathbreaker.”
• 00:10:32 Ben:“It’s been a pleasure, Alan.”
  Harry:“Goodbye, Oathbreaker. Send my regards to Mrs. Breaker.”
• 00:11:46 Kelnys:“It’s too bad we’re dead, I wanted to sell some spoons in that market.”
• 00:16:54 I:“It mights be caramel!”
• 00:17:17 Raidion and Endellion relenting to one hour at the festival
• 00:18:31 Ben makes funny sounds of disapproval upon the suggestion of entering without disguises.
• 00:21:30 Harry:“It is Dolly DeWinter, rather than Dolly DeSpring.” (roll for bad pun damage)
• 00:24:34 I:“When you is dead, calories don’t count!”
• 00:25:20 Fan Art Moment Popcorn gnome with golden goatee and purple hair.
• 00:26:18 Harry:“Just the four of you, then? Just the three of you, then? Just the two of you, then?” You can hear the hope die in his voice after each one.
• 00:29:17 PG:“Sometimes I catch sight of myself in a still pool over the edge of a blade and think ‘What are you like?’”
  He just goes back to stirring his corn.
• 00:31:16 Harry:“Is there any part of Raidion that has enjoyed this?”
  Ben:“Yeah.”
• 00:36:42 Doug:“Wait a minute! I have a skill called Spooncarving and I’ve got plus ten on that.”
  shows Harry the skill on his sheet
  Harry:“God, they’re cheating! I didn’t know it was possible.”
• 00:38:24 Harry:“You know when you’re a kid and you get given Calpol and you’re like ‘Nothing’s better than this’?”
• 00:45:05 Raidion:(still attempting the serious parent voice, but relenting completely)“You have one more hour.”
• 00:48:36 Endellion spots someone who will recognize them at the festival and alerts the team.
  Hollie:“I am necking the rest of this wine and it is (serious tone)‘We need to go’”
  Dolly:“So sorry everyone, but as you can see, our spoonshaper is done for the day…”
• 01:01:23 I marvels at the high chair and tray technology
• 01:05:39 Endellion just sits there sipping wine, looking like every character from Absolutely Fabulous.
  Hollie:“Sweetie. Darling.”
• 01:11:35 Raidion attempts to bury the phantom deck of cards he’s been carrying.
• 01:24:47 With Kelnys guiding them through the woods, the group happen upon a campfire with a group exchanging celebratory remarks about the attack upon Alvelion.
• 01:26:36 I’s foot finds a stray twig, but doesn’t appear to reveal his presence.
• 01:27:20 The mysterious figure in a silver mask.
  “Waiting. We wait until we hear otherwise.”
  “I can’t wait. Not knowing that there’s so many of them not knowing that they’re still in there.”
  “We have done our part for now. We wrote the message. That was what was required of us then. What is required of us now is to wait.”
  Curly:“I will bleed that council. Start with Trusk, real slow.”
• 01:31:12 Dolly rolls a 7 on a stealth check and is revealed
• 01:34:55 Dolly:“The web is wide.”
  “Good for the web.”
• 01:45:25 INITIATIVE
• 01:47:17 Dolly falls unconscious
• 01:48:01 Alex:“Like Sean Bean.”
• 01:50:56 Ben:“It’s not intimidation, it’s just a stupid thing that Raidion would say.”
  
• 01:57:33 Dolly revived with a healing potion
• 02:13:16 I’s impressive stealth skill allows him to disappear in a puff of popcorn and a whiff of caramel.
• 02:17:55 Dolly’s back! And she’s pissed!
• 02:21:00 Raidion successfully takes out the silver-masked ranger with a chromatic orb.
• 02:23:31 Kelnys falls unconscious
• 02:25:04 “Butterkist boi”
• 02:33:22 “The shadow will flood.”
• 02:36:20 In a tandem effort with Raidion, I subdues the final enemy.
• 02:36:51 “The old Christopher Lee stabbed in the back story.”
• 02:38:20 I:“Who sends you?”
  “Those who send us all.”
• 02:41:15 A note that reads:
  “Camino,
  Write the message on the mural.
  Return to the forest and wait.
  The water will soon rise”.
• 02:45:35 Harry describes the city of Baruun like a three-tiered cake with a single great staircase dividing the round walls. There is a painted and carved mural of the Virtuous on the middle tier near the stairs.
• 02:47:47 Raidion expresses the desire to pose as the three dead spies and use the opportunity to investigate the plot.
  I:“Oh, I likes this.”
  Dolly:“This could be an awful, awful plan. Obviously I’m up for it.”
  So, the five of you, under the canopy of the forest, with the fire still burning, sit. And wait.

have contrib­uted much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce.

A Moment of Recognition

The 30 minutes of pre-stream chat on Twitch and broadcast were placed upon the shoulders of our dear Alex Jordan and I have to give commendation for his efforts. Not only did he keep up with the chat scroll, but he made the sensible tech support decision when it came to difficulties getting the broadcast audio working properly:
1) Unplug it
2) plug it back in
The little mistakes that happen make the experience visceral (to me at least) and I had a blast. The delay was barely 5 minutes, but poor Alex was already sweating as though he had failed in some spectacular way. I hope the stress of the moment has left him and we can all smile back at a memory of a tough job well done.

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