Aggie and Milo In Costume VS Val Out of Costume VS Aunt Min and the LTC Mob VS The People’s River VS The Knight of Mirrors VS Bones Botti, Jacked O’Lantern and Brett the Cameraman. Everyone does cool stuff.
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Transcript
Amanda: Last time on Join the party...
Eric: Val is brought to the LTC mob's warehouse out in the swamps where Aunt Min offers Val opportunity to, haha, join the family business. Instead of taking no for an answer, Aunt Min reveals a painting that she's gotten her hands on, one that shows Little Italy flourishing in a rosier version of Lake Town City. And Val feels like maybe, just maybe, that could be a good idea. At the same time, the Knight of Mirrors reaches out to Aggie and Milo about the mob's illegal activities. After offering a strange mushroom that they recovered from JUICE!!!!! As kind of a peace offering. The Knight tells them about a painting with capital P Power, and Aggie recognizes it as one of her brother, Danny's. So it literally has capital P Power, Aggie Milo and the Knight go and scope out the LTC mob base, which is the same place that Val is at. Aggie slips on top of the roof, the Knight pulls around to the garage and Milo tries to sneak around to the loading dock only for his pass without trace to not let him pass without trace and he gets grabbed. Now everyone needs to fight their way out as more folks join the fray. This is Aggie and Milo in costume versus Val out of costume versus the Knight of Mirrors versus Aunt Min and the Mob versus the People's River versus Bones Body and the YouTube gang. Ding, ding, ding. Let's get the party started!
[Theme music]
Eric: Do you want to have another go of you doing a one liner to Aunt Min?
Amanda: Oh, uh.
Amanda (as Aggie): Oops,
Julia: Somehow better.
Eric: It's much better, much better. I love it. There's like a shattering of glass like pieces go click, click, click, and that you like Marvel superhero fall of the floor and Aunt Min's like
Eric (as Aunt Min): What is going on here?
Eric: And Aggie's like, "oops."
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: She says,
Eric (as Aunt Min): GET 'EM BOYS!
Eric: Everyone roll initiative.
Brandon: Okay, okay. Let's calm the boys down.
[Dice rolling]
Amanda: 13,
Julia: I got a 14 because I roll with advantage now because of what's the thing called feral instinct.
Amanda: Brandon what'd you get?
Brandon: Your boy got a natural 20!!
Eric: Wooooow!
Amanda: Brandon, why did you waste it on initiative?!
Julia: This is the one time we don't want you to have natural 20.
Brandon: No, it means I get to go first and then twice, right?
Eric: No. Well, the only time that -
Amanda: It's like Scrabble random, you get an extra 50 damage that you can deal against somebody.
Eric: Yeah, he got a Bazinga, or whatever they call it.
Brandon: I got a bazinga!
Eric: What is Milo's dexterity modifier?
[Suspenseful techno music fading in]
Julia: Oh, no. Someone else rolled a nat 20.
Brandon: Dex, dex, dex +2!
Eric: Okay, wonderful. So here's a fun thing that I've been talking about a little bit is that I rolled everyone's initiative before this so I could have some time to prep a little bit things I did not consider: Milo going first.
[Everyone laughing]
Julia: It seems impossible.
Eric: Alright, let's start with Milo. Milo, you're going to go first. So you're currently grappled by this giant Scandinavian man and you are dazed because you did just wake up from getting knocked out by some sort of electricity doohickey.
Amanda: What does that mean in D&D?
Eric: Dazed is not something that's in Dungeons and Dragons. But I will say that during this first round here, you will have a little bit tougher time depending on what you want to do. If it involves like thinking and like making plans, you will have disadvantage.
Brandon: Okay, that is fair. I guess!
Eric: You were, if I remember screaming about pasta lately. So I don't think you're ready to make some critical thinking moves.
Julia: We were trying to get him some pasta.
Brandon: I mean, that's just my normal go to thing. You know, it's pasta screaming.
Amanda: Really an instinct.
Brandon: I think what I want to do and you tell me how successful I will be on this. I want to reach into my pocket as I'm screaming for, you know, tagliatelle and I want to grab my Anti-Supernova Orb's and I want to become a goddamn ghost.
Amanda: Yeaaaah! Yay!
Eric: This was one of the things I was considering might happen!
Amanda: Can't grapple a ghost. Can you think about that, Eric. Think about that.
Brandon: Can't touch me if you can't touch me.
Julia: You can't eat tagliatelle though if you're a ghost because then your stomach's not -
Brandon: Uh Julia, You don't know ghost roles.
Julia: Just saying, if you physically can't be held, your stomach probably can't physically hold some tagliatelle.
Amanda: What if you can hold but not be held and then you could hold the tagliatelle in your tum?
Brandon: I wouldn't be able to hold a fork, but I think if I just use my mouth, I'd be able to eat them good noodles.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Wonderful. Okay, okay, so the anti supernova as it's known, your anti matter little balls. Yeah. You just go incorporeal.
Amanda: Yeah!!
Eric: So this is your action, but you do get, you keep your movement. So yeah. What does it look like when you finally you're using these for the first time?
Brandon: Well right now I look up and I see just like a beautiful Nordic man's face and I smell the wafting sense of pasta in the background. So I just think I'm in a spa. So I'm just like
Brandon (as Milo): Ahhh! Thanks for giving me the pasta.
Brandon: And then I see - then I hear the loud crash of Aggie falling through the skylight. And Milo is a nervous chap, so he has developed a habit. Whenever you hear something loud and fast, he just digs into his pocket to reach for the anti supernova orb's. So he takes his hand, his pocket, pulls him out, tosses him up in the air and they start to circle around him. And trailing each orb you see, like the galaxy, purple, green blues and sparkling lights start to get bigger and bigger and bigger until it envelop him. And then all of that energy sort of just like whoop inside of him and he becomes incorporeal.
Eric: I love it.
Julia: Such an aesthetic!
Amanda: Like the vacuum packing salmon for sous viding.
Brandon: Exactly. I am salmon.
Eric: What I really like about these is that you are still visible, but now you're just incorporeal. So I like the idea that there's this six foot six Nordic man trying to hold you and then all of a sudden like his hands, like just hit his chest and he's like,
Eric (as Nordic Man): Dude, I just threw through this man.
Eric: And the rest of the People's River turn around and the Indian guy rubs his double and says,
Eric (as Indian Man): Oh, interesting. Sometimes we just like move through each other the way that stress just moves through the body. When you have a clear mindset.
Brandon: Milo sort of stands up as much as a ghost can stand up and like waves his hand around and says,
Brandon (as Milo): Oh, it's all a simulation where we're going to kick your ass!
Brandon: And then runs over to Aggie.
Eric: [Laughing] Incredible wonderful! I love that it is now, the YouTube's turn. Bones Body goes over to Brett and be like
Eric (as Bones): Brett, I really need this. This is so wild right now. I really need to I really need you to make sure to get this on film because, like, we're going to break this stuff open.
Eric: And then he whispers something to Jacked O'Lantern because he's like right now there's a standoff that's happening here, like the mobsters and the superheroes. Are kind of standing at each other, and now Milo is just kind of like slipped away. And Bones is like,
Eric (as Bones): Hey, wait a second. That that guy just go through the other guy?
Eric: I'm going to roll against your spell save, just figure out if Bones knows what's happening. Well, don't worry, it's fine. I rolled a natural 5
[Brandon laughing]
Eric: And even if he is a ghost hunter, he's still a doofus. So I can't imagine it would meet your spell save.
Brandon: It did not!
Eric: But he's too busy trying to figure out reels on his Instagram where he says,
Eric (as Bones): Hey, everybody, whoa, this is so wild. We're in a mob-it's almost like we're in a mobster movie. This is wild. Can't tell you where because that's illegal. But check out our new video, which is dropping in a few days byeeee!
Eric: Aunt Min says,
Eric (as Aunt Min): Excuse me, did you just send out the location of organized crime to all of your followers?
Eric: And he says,
Eric (as Bones): Yeah, man, five hundred fifty five thousand and only five percent of those are bots!
[Everyone laughs]
Eric: Aunt Min says,
Eric (as Aunt Min): Oh, child. You've made a grave mistake.
Julia (as Val): It's like he wants to get murdered.
Eric: It's now Aunt Min's turn and says
Eric (as Aunt Min): You know what would be wonderful for you to look at? This wonderful painting I have here.
Eric: I need Milo and Aggie to make charisma saving rolls as Aunt Min gestures towards the painting she like. It's like she picks up a pot and a pan from the ground and starts like banging it behind the painting to get everyone's attention and pulls everyone's attention towards the painting.
Amanda: I got an 18.
Brandon: I got a 3 -1 for 2.
Julia: BRANDON.
Amanda: Ohh bud.
Eric: Aggie, this is some of your brother's pretty good work. He's actually like improved. It's really wild.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Milo, you look at this painting and listen, you've never been an art guy. You know, art is good, but like, you don't know anything about museums. You work in a museum that is explicitly not about art.
Brandon: I have a shirt that says "art is good."
Eric: Art is good, period. You've been going through a lot of changes lately and so is the world so has the city.
Amanda: And sounds like the start of puberty textbooks.
Eric: It's Milo connecting with art for the first time. Hey, maybe with the mob's doing. Yeah, it's not right, but maybe it's like morally ambiguous. Like everyone needs to live, man.
Brandon: [In a Batman voice] Like Batman.
Eric: Yeah, just like Batman. But maybe they have a no kill rule. Maybe.
Julia: [Whispers] They don't.
Eric: And you are now currently affected by the painting, Milo.
Brandon: Okay.
Amanda: What effect does it have?
[Eric mumbles]
Eric: I need to see who else is affected by the painting.
[Dice rolls]
Eric: Oh, hello, Jacked O'Lantern put a hand on Bones' a shoulder and like gestured towards the painting and Bones goes,
Eric (as Bones): Oh, you know, you know, I never really thought of it like that. Art's wild man. Maybe we should be like an art YouTube, you think that would be good? Like diversify? Probably nice.
Brandon (as Milo): [In the Batman voice] Isn't YouTube the art man?
Eric (as Bones): Oh, man. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, absolutely.
Eric: And the People's River, like,
Eric (as People's River): Definitely man. Art's all around us.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: They pull out their phones and start following each other on Insta.
Eric: It is now the People's River turn. The Indian guy who seems to be their leader continues like,
Eric (as Indian Man): Hey, it'd be really nice if we just if we stay and chat. But like this is weird way, we're going to get out of here. We don't have to be here, right?
Eric: And Aunt Min is like
Eric (as Aunt Min): No stay! Can you please do do something, please?
Eric: And they say,
Eric (as Indian Man): You know, actually we are we're only going to be here for a little while. We can put these we put these cases down wherever you want, though. We'll put them down next to the pasta. So. Well, yeah. We're going to see you later.
Eric: And they turn on their heels and Aunt Min says
Eric (as Aunt Min): Wait, wait, wait. You come on. We could give you some - please. So we could use - you stay it will be nice if you stay. We can all stay like you know, we don't really we don't really want to get involved here. It's actually a lot lighter on our souls.
Eric: And the same People's River member reaches into his pocket and takes out like a little cube and then throws it on the ground. It immediately, like grows ten feet tall and then ten feet wide. And then it looks like they're a little like little wires all throughout the cube, which is now turned into a wall. And they slowly turn on and it gets brighter and brighter and brighter. And now it's just this shimmering wall of light that is blocking them. And it's like someone turned on halogen lights, just blasting everyone in the face. And I need everyone to make Constitution saving throws please!
[Dice rolling]
Amanda: 17!
Brandon: Non-nat 20!
Eric: Niiice!
Julia: 14 +5 so a 19!
Eric: Hell yeah. Wow, incredible.
Amanda: We've seen their bullshit before because you all passed, you all take 9 points of radiant damage. That's it. That's all that happens. I like to imagine you all put on like Men in Black sunglasses, Bones Body covers his eyes immediately, he goes,
Eric (as Bones): Oh Brett!! Take the camera down! It's going to wash out the frame, it is going to break it.
Eric: And a bunch of the mobsters also cover their eyes. They go,
Eric (as Mobsters): Oh, mmno!! Ahh gabbagool!
Eric: And they cover their eyes and then just stands there looking directly at it says,
Eric (as Aunt Min): I guess I probably should have seen that one coming. I don't know why I spent all that time looking into the sun with the looking into the sun with the monks on top of Mt. Everest. But I guess they paid off. Fine, fine.
Brandon: Are you telling me that Aunt Mind stood on top of Mt. Everest with a crowd of monks and stood at the sun for multiple hours a day?
Eric (as Aunt Min): You're only as strong as the weakest link in some time. For most people, it's your irises. And I have to give me Iris is strong.
Amanda: Hey, everybody, don't listen to anything Aunt Min says, thanks.
Julia: [Singing] The woooorst!
Eric: The People's River, using their light screen, are now backing out of the room. The mobsters are covering their eyes and Aunt Min is looking very mad, standing next to it with a pot and in one hand and a wooden spoon to the other. Behind the painting, the YouTubers are covering their eyes. Jacked O'Lantern looks okay because his head is a Jack O'Lantern and is trying to readjust. It's trying to readjust the focus on the big camera and it is now our good friend Val's turn, not Vulkani, because you kind of just showed up there and someone picked you up off the street.
Julia: Yes. So I don't think I can in good conscience say that Val has their gauntlets on them. I believe, though, that they might carry around the, like, Oakley sunglasses part of their costume just in case they need to, like, obscure their look. Sure. Can I take a free and throw those on?
Eric: Absolutely. Listen, you just throw out some Oakley sunglasses. That's fine!
Julia: Great! Now, how far away are the YouTubers?
Eric: You're probably on the other side of the room sitting on that couch over there. So you were probably pretty close to them.
Julia: Great. I have a speed of 40. Would that be able to get to them?
Eric: Yeah, absolutely.
Julia: Awesome. So I'm going to bonus action, go into a rage.
Eric: Wonderful.
Julia:I am going to then take my movement and go over to them and I would love to just smash that camera.
[Everyone laughs]
Eric: Oh, incredible! Okay, let's do a strength check for you to get in between you and Jack O'Lantern, because his kind of thing is just generally he's their security team. So his job is literally he's just like protecting the other two, Jack O'Lantern because he's so jacked he gets a +4.
Julia: Okay, great. I get advantage on strength checks while I'm raging, that is a 15 + -
Eric: Yeah um, I rolled a natural 2 so you got it.
Julia: I got 21.
Eric: So yeah. Wonderful. Yeah. How do you get in between Jacked O'Lantern and the camera?
Julia: I think I just like bodycheck him.
Eric: Oh that is wonderful. I'm sure, that this thing doesn't have an AC so why don't you just roll your damage now and I'm going to say that this camera in order to break it, you can do like 10. But if you want to, like, destroy everything inside of it, it's going to take 20.
Julia: Okay, I did roll a 6, though, which is +5 as well. So that is 11. And I'll take my second attack on this thing to see if I can destroy it.
[Eric laughs]
Eric: Brandon, if you put the Office Space music on video of the printer?
Julia: So I rolled a 4 +2 +3. So that's 9. Damn! Hell yeah. That's 20 right there baby. Yeah. How do you destroy this camera, what does it look like?
Julia: I think I just kind of grab it out of this guy's head, crush it with one hand and on the other hand comes in for the second attack at then crunches it with the other side.
Eric: I think Brett like you took it out of his hands. He's like looking at his hands you like.
Eric (as Brett): Yeah. I guess I should probably have assumed that's what was going to happen.
Julia (as Val): It's like you came into what you knew was a mobster warehouse, and decided to film and didn't think anything was going to happen from that huh bub?
Eric: Bones is like,
Eric (as Bones): [Freaking out] Oh, where is where are they going to get them? I'm going to get them!!
Eric: And then Jacked O'Lantern takes out like a piece of paper from his pocket and hands it to you and it's the warranty on the camera. So he just he just shrugs. Don't worry. They still under warranty. It's fine. You can see that Bones is still has his camera out ever since he got flashed and blinded and he's still, like, wildly filming everything.
Julia (as Val): Oh, what a dumb ass.
Eric: He can't - he's just holding it out, hopeful that he's going to catch something. But at this point, he's kind of just like he's just like pointing it out the wall a little bit getting some like, vague audio. So he still has his camera out. It is now Aggie's turn. Aggie, you just marvel landed in the middle of this mob shit and you looked really cool. Now you have to do something else that's cool.
Amanda: Yeah, I think that before this gets too deep, Aggie is going to stand up, put her hands kind of up defensively and say to Aunt Min,
Amanda (as Aggie): I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I will take my buddy here and go, if that's cool with you.
Amanda: And I am attempting to use emissary of peace, which is to defuse violent situations so I get advantage on charisma checks to calm violent emotions or council peace.
Eric: Wow, that's incredible. I think that's actually that's exactly what Aunt Min wants, Aunt Min does not like violence Aunt Min does not want anything bad to happen. So I'll give you advantage. I'm going to say it's going to be in between 15 and 20 because you are already here. You've already seen everything. So I'm going to give you a DC17 of persuasion on this.
Amanda: Cool, the only like fine print is that I can't be lying, but I'm not.
Eric: No, you're definitely not.
Amanda: Alright. I got a 16 and 17 so. 17 +2 for a 19!
Eric: Let's go. I am rolling like crap and you guys are crushing it today. Absolutely!
Julia: Love it.
Eric: So Aunt Min says
Eric (as Aunt Min): Hmmm. I see your conflict resolution tactics smart, you're giving me exactly what I want and you want to walk out of here without tons of bullets/energy holes in you. I understand.
Amanda (as Aggie): I went to a seminar. Thank you.
Eric (as Aunt Min): You look like someone who hasn't seen the inside of a Radisson Inn understanding pacifism, techniques.
Amanda (as Aggie): Sick burn. But yeah. Yeah, I see what you mean.
Eric (as Aunt Min): It's not it's not a burn if it's the truth. Oh write- someone write that down. Write that down!
Julia (as Val): It is still a little bit of a burn just because it's the truth.
Eric (as Aunt Min): It's not that Val. It's not when you fully come in you'll - you'll, you'll appreciate the nuggets of wisdom that I give you.
Amanda (as Aggie): I will say I don't know who ran your seminar, but at mine the coffee was terrible. Was that was that true of yours?
Eric (as Aunt Min): They're always terrible. That's why I always bring my own yerba mate wherever I go.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): Oh very smart! I should do that. But also, I learned that it's important to have buy in from everybody before a true and lasting kind of compromise is reached. And, you know, I don't mean to put myself in your business, but that painting over there stacks the odds pretty much in your favor. And whatever temporary effects may or may not be happening from the person that may or may not have created that painting. I don't think that's lasting and I don't think it's fair.
Eric (as Aunt Min): Hmmm, interesting. That's exactly a technique that Sensei McQuillen told me, is that you ask for more than you actually think they're going to give so they'll just let you do the thing. The answer is no, but wonderful. I applaud your technique. Wonderful. Yeah. If you can you can all leave. If that's exactly what you'd like, you can just you can leave.
Eric: I will also say the People's River are like still they don't have enough speed to just fully leave. But right now they're just walking away with their light screen, just kind of getting out of there.
Amanda: So Preserver nods and says,
Amanda (as Aggie): I appreciate that. Fair enough. I will proceed out.
Amanda: And start walking toward the painting. And then I'm going to use a ki point to dash and grab the painting on my way out, running toward the garage entrance.
Eric: Yeah. Oh, wonderful!
Julia: What a fucking move.
Eric: Come on, Kilonova! Let's get out of here.
Amanda: Yup!
Eric: Yeah, I'll let you grab the painting, but you're definitely still 100 percent in the warehouse.
Amanda: Oh, yeah, sure. No. Alright. So that's my speed. Doubled 90 feet.
Eric: Yeah. I think you grab you like we mosey over to the painting, and then grab it and run.
Amanda: Yep, I do.
Eric: Immediately Aunt Min says
Eric (as Aunt Min): AHH! Double crossed. I should have seen this coming. The Sensei told me! Why did I listen to McQuillen when he was over by the terrible coffee?!
Eric: Knight of Mirrors turn and you hear as the Knight of Mirrors bursts in through the garage,
Amanda: I look away frantically,
Eric: And they hit a U-turn super hard like in Fast and Furious 7, and holds the hand out for you to hop on the bike.
Amanda: Yeah, I take it and have the painting like under my arm, like a like a glass delivery truck just getting strapped to the side of it.
Eric: I'm going to make a dexterity check to hold you there and I want you to make an acrobatics check.
[Dice rolling]
Amanda: 22.
Eric: Oh, man, I rolled in 18. Hell absolutely, yeah, this is like this is, you know, in Fast and Furious when Michelle Rodriguez does the turn with the car and Paul Walker grabs the spoiler? So it's seamless. It's just like that. You might as well be going in slow motion. They reach their hand out. It grabs you like you're doing a gladiator handshake and pulls you on to the back of the bike. So you're pretty much in the same spot. But now you are on the Knight of Mirrors' bike and you can go significantly faster.
Amanda: Hell yeah!
Eric: And that's when Salimony makes his move.
Amanda: Oh, no.
Eric: Yeah, I think Salimony goes from the kitchenette and and runs over to the Knight of Mirrors and Aggie and is trying to grab the painting from you and hurt you
Eric (as Salimony): AUNT MIN I GOT IT! Don't worry. It's fine. I got it. Don't worry about it!
Eric: And he takes out one of those goofy white and ice blue PowerCore guns that the People's River has have been dotting. And he holds it sideways like he's like he's a gangster movie and he tries to shoot each of you once.
Amanda: Now, is this a ranged attack?
Eric: This is a ranged attack.
Amanda: GREAT! So I can deflect missels!
Eric: DAMMIT!
Julia: Haha! Finally!
Eric: Dammit! So I rolled a 22 for you.
Amanda: Oh yeah. Well my AC is 15 so I get to deflect missiles and reduce range attacks by a 10 + my dex + my level.
Julia: That's really good!
Brandon: Eric, I also get a halo spiritsby the way.
Amanda: Alright. 8 +6 plus my level is 8 is 22. If the damage gets brought to 0 I can use a ki point to throw it back.
Eric: Oh beans.
Julia: Incredible.
Amanda: Okay, please, please, please.
Julia: We've gone from "is a knife to a projectile?" To this and I'm so glad!
Eric: I rolled 22 damange.
Amanda: Alright. So since the difference reached 0. I am going to spend a ki point. Thank you very much. I am going to grab the Knight of Mirrors elbow, say sorry and yank it up slightly so that the blast deflects against their armor and shoots back at Salimony.
Eric: [Laughing] Oh my God.
Brandon: As I see Aggie do that and the energy blast comes back to Salimony Milo's going to reach out his hand and add his own little juice to it with halo of spirits and add 6 necrotic damage to on top of whatever Aggie's doing.
Eric: Oh my God.
Amanda: Well I rolled a 13 to hit.
Eric: Unfortunately that does not hit. Yeah. You used you use the shoulder to blast back the energy. Salimony needs to jump to the right to get out of the way and that's when he just like hit by necrotic bullets coming from Milo, who may or may not be incorporeal at the moment. He's like,
Eric (as Salimony): Oh, I'm in a little I'm a little over my head here, but I got to keep going!
Eric: And now he's going to try to go for the painting. He's just going to try to grab it from you. This is going to be a strength check. He has a +0 to strength.
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: Ahh I got 4, I'm going to reroll with my last luck point.
Eric: Oh!
Julia: Oof.
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: Now that one was a 2. Okay, so 5.
Eric: I rolled a 14. Yeah, Salimony's pulled out all the stops. He hasn't done this much cardio in years. He jumps out of the way of the energy is hit by necrotic damage blood and is out of fear of you know, what happens when you're in the mob just wrestles the painting from you and is now holding it.
Amanda: Okay, like
Eric (as Sal): Aunt Min! I got it. I got it!
Eric (as Aunt Min): Good, wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Salimony, don't die here. Actually, you know what? Hit the deck.
Eric: At that point, the YouTube birds are going to use their reaction where Bones Body is going to try to load up his potato gun full of weird shit and fire it at Aggie and the Knight of Mirrors, where a Bones says
Eric (as Bones): It's - is weird power stuff happening?! I don't like that.
Eric: And he's going to try to do an attack roll against you. Yeah, he yeah. He's also blinded. So I get disadvantage on that. And I rolled a natural 1. So Bones tries to reload this. He loads it wrong and the thing just goes booof! And everything around them are just covered in that purple like paint dust. Describe it -
Julia: It gets me though, doesn't it?
Eric: Yes. You're also covered in the paint dust. And Val, you trying to wipe it off and you just can't wipe it off. It's like someone outlined you in purple.
Julia: Ugh. This does go with my new vest, though.
Amanda: Very cool.
Eric: It definitely does. This is exactly what happened before when you were behind the dumpster. You're - it is not like on your skin. It's like someone traced around you now in purple.
Julia: It's like an aura.
Eric: Yeah, it's like an aura. It's like a night light. Aunt Min sees that and they say,
Eric (as Aunt Min): Why did I spend all of this time trying to get someone to follow you if you were just going to reveal yourself as someone with these powers?
Julia (as Val): It wasn't a fuckin' choice. What do you want from me?
Eric (as Aunt Min): God, it's just even while running any sort of company, even if it's even if it's organized crime, you can't have redundancies. Well, I don't know why I spent all that time in the Radisson lobby if this was going to happen.
Eric: Wonderful. It is now the it's now the mobsters turn and the mobsters are upset at everyone. So the mobsters are all going to work as one. I'm going to use it's like a swarm of mobsters.
Amanda: Yeah. Like our friend the kuo-toa.
Eric: I feel like all of them are going to like are trying to descend on an Aggie, Milo and the Knight of Mirrors. But imagine this is just like a swarm of mobsters. They're coming over and over and over like going [garbled mobster yelling] And they're all running over to you and descending on you to keep you from leaving. And I'm going to take 2 attacks against Aggie.
[Dice rolling]
Eric: Does 11 hit?
Amanda: No.
Eric: Alright, I'm going to go again.
[Dice rolls]
Eric: Alright, that one hit, that's 21.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: You take 14 bludgeoning damage as just like fists from everywhere are trying to- trying to hit you and trying to get you off the bike.
Amanda: Alright.
Eric: I think the Knight of Mirrors is trying to pull away they're like
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): There's-there's too many people around the only street toughs need to get out of the way!
[Music fades out]
[Transition note]
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Eric: Did you call me? It's me, the bone witch!
Amanda: Oh, no!
Eric (as Bone Witch): Was I supposed to be here for this?!
Amanda: This is very awkward bone witch I am, I'm just I-I'm not going to return because, you know, I just like you've helped me so much and I just I don't need to come back.
Eric (as Bone Witch): Oh I got new bones!
Amanda: That's great. And I'm sure a lot of people are really going to enjoy it-
Eric (as Bone Witch): Like fish bones! They're better.
Amanda: And they're smaller.
Eric (as Bone Witch): Yeah. For your trauma! That's what they're for.
Amanda: Wow. Well that's that's so generous and I hope that I can I can see you again one day.
Eric (as Bone Witch): Okay, well I guess you've had a really good product and you don't need me. I'll wait for when Eric is doing this bye bye! Bones bones bones bones bones.
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[Transition note]
[Suspenseful electronic music starts up]
Eric: It is now Milo's turn. Milo, also, you lose the you're the balls surrounding you stop spinning. And you were once again corporeal.
Brandon: Cool. So Milo knows that he needs to slow down Salimony somehow and slow down this big gaggle of jerks. If I can say some bad language on this on this show.
[Julia laughs]
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: So he's going to cast confusion on Salimony and each creature within a ten foot radius sphere. Each creature must succeed on a wisdom saving throw when I cast a spell or be affected by it. An effected target can't take reactions and must roll a d10 at the start of each of its turn to determine its behavior for that turn, and I have a little fun table to tell you what it is.
Julia: Fancy!
Eric: Oooo! Fourth level! Brando reaching into to your bag of tricks. I love this. Yeah, Salimony is going to roll, but at this point Aunt Min says
Eric (as Aunt Min): Salvator. You know what I told you. Focus, look into your inner third eye.
Eric: And that's when Aunt Min is going to use her Diviner Trick and give Salimony 16 plus his wisdom which is +0. So he gets a 16.
Brandon: Then he saves, unfortunately. But everyone within a ten foot radius also gets affected, so.
Eric: Oh so I have to roll, I have to roll mobsters. Yeah. This is might surprise you, but a bunch of mobsters don't have great wisdom.
Julia: You wouldn't think so.
Eric: Yeah. They rolled a 5.
Julia: Okay.
Brandon: Yeah. That's not good.
Eric: No this swarm of mobsters like
Eric (as Mobsters): Oh what the hell did you do?! I don't believe this. I will go to church every Sunday. I thought this is supposed to keep me from this.
Eric: They all sound like Danny Zuko at this point.
Brandon: A fog of ghostly energy surrounds their heads and only their heads. And then at the start of each of their turn, they'll have to roll a d10 for me.
Eric: Wonderful. I love I love that he still has the painting because Salimony opened up his third eye. Wonderful.
Brandon: And I gotta roll a spell surge.
Eric: Oh yeah. You only have to roll for one.
[Dice roll]
Brandon: Got a 12!
Eric and Amanda: Nice!
Eric: It is now because YouTubers. Jacked O'Lantern, he's going to turn to you and shrug as if trying to convey to you. "So what? Do you have any recommendations on what to do?" Cause Bones is still like wildly placed. I have to go for his blindness to see if he saves.
[Dice rolling]
Eric: Oh he rolled a 3. And he's still blind! And like the purple smoke everywhere isn't helping. Oh yeah. You're still glowing purple. So Jack O'Lantern is looking to you and like like I like shrugs and like is like gestures to you "so what's all this then?"
Julia (as Val): None of your business. But if I were you I would probably one give me your friend's phone, and two leave before you get killed by some mobsters. That's my advice.
Eric: I think Jacked O'Lantern thinks for a second and they're like grabs Bones and is going to try to rub, rub the paint out of his eyes. I'm going to do a medicine check to help him out.
Julia: Also, he's blinded by the People's River.
Eric: No, that's right, he's trying to rub the pain out of his eyes and Jacked O'Lantern takes eyedrops out of his pocket, and tries to get the sunglasses out of the way. He rolled a 17. So, yeah, Bones is now no longer blinded. And as his action and Bones is going to keep filming like,
Eric (as Bones): Ooh, man, I don't know what I'd do without you. Jacked O'Lantern, you're totally getting a Christmas bonus this year. I don't know where to find it and we haven't done it before. Maybe we should have more of like an actual job structure in this media thing.
Eric: And Bones is still filming, but now he turns and he's filming, Val.
Eric (as Bones): So I guess you're not a real person, you're not a real person, and you're one of those powered folk. If you're going to have that purple outline around you,
Julia (as Val): Well, that's just fucking bigoted.
Eric (as Bones): Listen, hey man I call like I see it, and that's all my, all my audience needs to know here, see it.
Eric: And he turns it around to show you the comments. And like this, like a bunch of people just being like, "oh, what is the person of purple around them?! They're one of those power aw fuuhhh!"
Brandon: Oh no.
Julia: It's fine. I don't think you're a real person because you're a YouTuber.
[Brandon and Amanda laughing]
Eric (as Bones): Wow. You know, I've faced a lot I faced a lot of discrimination in my day. Like that is some of the worst.
Amanda: Ugh, oookay.
Julia (as Val): Kindly fuck off.
Eric: And now it's Aunt Min's turn. And what what is Aunt Min going to do?Oh, I know what Aunt Min's going to do!
Brandon: Walk away?
Eric: Yeah, Aunt Min is just going to slowly back away. Aunt Min puts one hand, like on her head in a very classic channeling the energy pose. And she goes,
Eric (as Aunt Min): Boys, boys, boys, boys, please focus and listen to the sound of my voice.
Eric: And she furrow her brow and you can see, like, all the mobsters, even the ones that are all confused and Salimony, like stop for a moment like they're listening to something and then they all, like, really try to hide it. But then they. All like nod themselves and go like, "oh okay, yeah yeah."
Amanda: Oh boy.
Julia: Aw man.
Eric: It is now the People's River, yeah, the People's River still have their light going and they're just fully now backed out of the loading dock. And the one with the same guy slams the cube and the white van pulls up and they all go to hop in the white van outside.
Julia: Hey I'm personally fine with them leaving. Yeah, we can find them later.
Eric: And Val, itis now your turn.
Julia: Cool. I'm going to take his phone away from him.
Eric: Alright. Let's make a strength contest against Bones Body! Bones has a +2 because he's not the jacked one, but like, he still needs to, like, work on his definition.
Julia: Great. Alright. Well, I rolled a 17 +6.
Eric: Yeah, I rolled an 11. I think you got it, bud.
Julia: I'd also love to instead of taking an attack, I would love to delete his Instagram profile.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: YEAAAH! A digital attack in cyberspace!!!
Brandon: That's an attack if I've ever heard of one.
Eric: So we've been using arcana for tech and I think that's fair, make a roll and I'll see what to what extent you can mess up his his phone.
Julia: I got a -1 to arcana so.
Eric: Yeah Val doesn't strike me as a geek squad. So that totally makes sense to me.
Julia: No, but it's pretty easy to do. You just go into settings and it says, do you want to delete your account? And you say yes.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: Oh, no.
Eric: Oh, no. What did you do?
Brandon: Julia's making a face.
Julia: I need to hold up to the microphone. The camera, just so you can see.
Amanda: Is that that little squid, is that a nat 20?
Eric: Is that a natural 20?
Julia: It is a little squid for a nat 20!!
Amanda: A cephalopod special.
Eric: Yeah, man, do whatever you want.
Julia: I issue an apology saying we were wrong. You shouldn't subscribe to us. Please unsubscribe and then I delete his account forever.
Amanda: Incredible.
Eric: That's incredible! Yeah, I think that like you're stiff arming him. While, I think with the other hand and you're writing an apology on the notes app, you take a screenshot you posted to his Instagram and then you shut it down.
Julia: Oh, I just use the Create function on his Instagram for saying that.
Amanda: It's like a very cheerful lime green background and white font!
Eric: Wonderful. Tell me exactly what the apology says.
Julia: It says, "We apologize for the discrimination against powered people, and realized that we were using our platform for evil rather than good. Please make sure that you donate to causes." Val's like "I dunno"
Eric: Just donate to causes! [Laughing] That's very funny! Aw shit! It is now Preserver's turn as Bones gets it back like,
Eric (as Bones): I had five hundred thousand followers. I'm going to get them back!
Julia: Okay, I don't want to give the phone back. I think I want to just crush it. But I wanted to make sure I did permanent damage before I crushed it.
Eric (as Bones): I was supposed to run an ad for the new delivery service from Thornhill Coffee. What the hell? I get paid so much from that. I have so many bills!
Julia (as Val): Stop overspending, don't use your credit so much.
Eric: It is now the Preserver's turn.
Amanda: I think Preserver takes out her bear repellent neutralizing spray and sprays it all over the back of the painting.
[Everyone ooo's]
Eric: Oh, holy shit. Okay, here's the thing. This painting is very powerful. This is like you're trying to break a magic artifact of some sort. So you're going to have to do a pretty high wisdom's saving throw against this is going to be the same as the charisma. You have to get a 17 or higher to neutralize this thing.
Amanda: Alright.
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: 13 +2, that's okay, I'll just use a ki point to do a martial arts and punch him in the face.
Eric: You want to punch him to get him to drop it?
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: Okay, so you try to spray this, your bear repellent all over the back of the painting. And I think that the painting just rejects it, it's almost like, you know, like when water beads like on a - for Aggie, it's an anorak beads on there. It's like, you know, just kind of like floating there and eventually just it just disappears while everyone around you coughs like, "did you spray bear- is that a bear repellent?!"
Amanda: Aggie: Looks at this guy, says
Amanda (as Aggie): Fucking Danny!!!
Amanda: And then punches Salimony in the face to use a ki point to do martial arts.
Eric: Wonderful.
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: Uh, 9.
Eric: Now, that's that's under the AC.
Amanda: UGH!
Eric: Yeah. You're so mad at your brother. That Salimony blocks it with the painting.
Amanda: Damn. Well, I'll get back on the bike if I went off at any point.
Eric: Okay, it's now the Knight of Mirrors' turn. The Knight of Mirrors' just gonna try to straight up - he's going to try to straight up run over Salimony.
Julia: Nice.
[Brandon laughing]
Eric: So they're going to do like a like a wide U turn and then come back around and run through the the mobsters and then try to hit Salimony to try to hit Salimony. Because they get two attacks. So the first one is
[dice rolling]
Eric: Hell yeah. Okay, so they take a wide U turn and like the mobsters are all are all in a in a little bunch and they're all like "SCATTER!" Because you know they all grew up playing stickball so they all drove out of the way. But Salimony's like "what?" And just gets run over by the Knight of Mirrors' motorcycle.
Julia: Salimony never got invited to play stickball with the rest of the gangsters.
Brandon: It sounds right.
Julia: I know.
Eric: Because he fucking blows like,
Amanda: It's fine, I'm the equipment manager!
Eric: So he has to do a strength saving throw or be knocked prone and drop the painting.
Amanda: Yeah!
Eric: So I gotta make a DC strength saving throw. He has a +1.
Amanda: I'm like,
Amanda (as Aggie): Don't try to hit the painting, but if you do it's okay.
Brandon and Julia: Uh oh.
Eric: I rolled a 13 plus - let me check, let me just check. No I was wrong. +0!! 13 +0 is 13! He needed a 14!!
[Everyone cheers]
Eric: And he just gets run over by this motorcycle and the painting clatters out of his hand.
Amanda: Great.
Eric: And the Knight of Mirrors just coolly leans down while still in motion and picks up the painting and turns around to you and be like,
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Hey did you drop this?
Amanda (as Aggie): I sure did, bud thank you.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Absolutely. Gotta work together. Don't get back to them, please. I want to be very clear. Please hold onto this.
Eric: I need to roll damage.
Julia: Oh, I don't like Salimony, but let's not murder my cousin.
Eric: It's okay. He only got 2 points of damage +7 for 9 because he's been run over by a car before. So he knows that you go limp. It's really hard to really figure it out and the mobsters are not looking good. I think a few of them are passed out. A few of them are just like " I'm too old, ugh I'm too old for this shit." And they go back over and start eating pasta so there's less mobsters around. So imagine a swarm of mobsters is smaller. It's now Salimony's turn again. Yeah, he's going to try to I think he's going to fire on the bike. He's really mad. He's just like,
Eric (as Sal): You know, that's a stupid bike anyway,must have seen it at one of the chop shops around? That's where you picked it up. Ahaha got 'em!
Eric: So he's going to try to fire at the Knight of Mirrors. And as he's trying to get up like he's at a cool gangster movie and because he's holding the gun sideways, they fly. They just wildly go off in different directions and burn like little energy holes in the warehouse where Aunt Min goes
Eric (as Aunt Min): Salvator. This isn't insured, we can't get insured because we are a criminal organization.
Julia (as Val): I mean, you should have this like a legitimate business on file so that you can get insured. Did Dad not teach you that? Because he taught me that.
Eric: She just holds up a hand to you like stop, please stop. The other mobsters are going to try to hurt Milo!
Brandon: Before that, could you go ahead and roll a d10 for me?
Eric: Oh, no!
[Amanda and Julia cheer]
Eric: Jesus, I'm gonna roll for advantage on this because Milo, you think, "man, these guys, they're just trying their best. They're not - again, they're just doing their jobs!" So I'm going to roll with advantage on this.
Brandon: Son of a bitch.
Eric: It's a powerful artifact. Well, I rolled a 3 and a 5, they can't move or take actions this turn.
[Julia and Amanda cheer]
Eric: Even as you consider them to be some Bon Jovi men working out on the docks. They were just like
Eric (as Mobsters): What do we do? What do we do around here?
Brandon: You do also get to make a wisdom saving throw at the end of your turn.
Eric: Thank you. I rolled in at 20. So so they're like, "WOOAH WE'RE HALFWAY THERE!"
Julia: Woooah!
Eric: Livin' on a prayer. And so they're riling themselves up with Bon Jovi and they great confusion out of them.
Julia: Like every mobster I know.
Eric: Just like every mobster, loves Bon Jovi. So and now they're back. Top of the order Val you are putting an apology at Bone Body's phone, and hs his phone. Aggie you have the painting and you are on the back of the motorcycle. If precarious, Milo, you have been almost descended on by mobs, by a few mobsters, but they got confused and didn't want to do it and had to sing Bon Jovi to give them back. Aunt Min is just more stewing in the corner at the moment. And that's and that's what's going on.
Brandon: Wonderful. Well, here's what I'm to do. I'm going to cast erupting earth.
Amanda: Yeeah!!! And I'm going to choose a point in between all of us and erupt a 20 foot cube of ghostly hands centered on that point.
Eric: Hell yes!
Brandon: And any creature within that point takes 3d12 bludgeoning damage on a failed dexterity save. But additionally, more importantly, it makes that ground difficult terrain so we can make our quick escape.
Eric: I love that. That definitely hits the the mobster swarm.
Brandon: Yeah. So you got to make a dexterity saving throw.
Eric: I love that. I feel like all of a sudden, like two hands come out of your chest and they go. [clapping] And in the middle, like BOOM!! And tons of hands come out of the ground and go [clappings]
Amanda: My sons!
Brandon: I love the coordination.
Eric: Listen, all the spirits have been practicing a lot. They are all go to Yale, Harvard games constantly because that's what all the dead folks want to do, is go to Yale, Harvard games. So, yeah, they're all very practiced like. That's incredible. So do Salimony. First, Salimony gets a natural 1.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Good good.
Eric: And the mobsters get 12.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: 17. So they both take 17 points of bludgeoning damage.
Eric: Hooo bludgeoning - oh bludgeoning damage? Alright. Yeah, the mobsters, a bunch of the mobsters like fall in. And then some of them disappear and then the rest of them are just like,
Eric (as Mobsters): Oh a oh, not dealing with any ghosts here!
Eric: They all take out the rosaries and the the crosses around their neck, like kiss it and then like run out into the main warehouse and just like get out of Dodge.
Brandon: Yeah. The ones that fall the hands literally just grab them and take them down into the earth.
Eric: Absolutely. I think Salimony also grabbed by the ankle and gets pulled in, he's like
Eric (as Salimony): The power of christ compels you!! Ahh!!
Eric: He takes out a flask out of his pocket and tries to throw it. And he is not pulled in, but he is rattled!
Brandon: And I turn to the Knight of Mirrors and Aggie, and I say,
Brandon (as Milo): That's our escape path! You guys want to leave?
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): You - I know that this is really sick. Let's make sure - can you maintain voice we're at the office.
Brandon (as Milo): Oh sorry, you're right. You're right. [Batman voice] That's our escape! Let's bail.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Thank you. I really appreciate that. You should get a voice modulator that might actually hurt you.
Brandon (as Milo): Do they sell those or did you make your own custom one?
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): I mean, like store bought is fine but I made mine.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay, Val make a perception check.
Julia: 5.
Eric: Alright. I really hope the like Average Bear picks up how Bones apologized. That would be really cool. Yeah, I should think of charities to donate to.
Julia: Causes.
Eric: I just -what if I started a nonprofit?! Val thinks to themselves. It's the YouTuber's turn Brett's gonna take out his phone and film it.
Julia: Can I, can I like as a reaction try to intimidate him. Be like "you really want to do that huh?"
Eric: You can't. Unfortunately you cannot.
Julia: Okay, but Aunt Min looks over from the other side of the warehouse and like casts her hand like these are not the droids you're looking for and be like,
Eric (as Aunt Min): Do you really want to do that right now, young man?
Eric: And Brett's like
Eric (as Brett): Oh no no, no I don't think I want to-
Julia (as Val): Say, ma'am.
Eric (as Brett): Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, I don't want to do that.
Eric: And like he was trying to get his phone to work while you were threatening him and that was he was trying to do an arcana roll and she divined it out of the way.
Julia: Great.
Eric: And the YouTubeers are just there. All of their shit is broken. Jacked O'Lantern puts a hand on his shoulder and looks at him with two hollow pumpkin eyes and bones goes,
Eric (as Bones): Yeah, I haven't tried that yet. Hey, would you give me my phone back, please? I think I really learned my lesson.
[Brandon and Amanda laughing]
Julia (as Val): No.
Eric: I'm going to roll with disadvantage. Yeah. I rollled a 6.
Eric (as Bones): Alright. Fair, alright. Fair enough. To the Bone Van! Jon Bon, Jon Bone Jovi! You got to hold down to what we got!
Julia (as Val): HEY! That's our song.
Eric: And now and the YouTubers are going to get the hell out of Dodge. Brett looks over his shoulder once and sighs deeply and hops in the van, which you can see because like the doors, I didn't explain this before, but like, he potato gunned to the door is off. It's like the doors are just, like, stuck open. And you can see the other door was stuck open as well. And you just see the van just drive off to the YouTubers are gone from the encounter. It is now Aunt Min's turn.
Brandon: Eric, real fast. I forgot to roll a spell check surge.
Eric: Oh, yeah, go ahead!
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: I got 11. All good!
Eric: So you're at 3 now. Aunt Min's turn. I want everyone to make perception checks, please.
[Dice rolling]
Amanda: 13
Julia: 11
Brandon: Man, 5 +7 for 12.
Eric: Well, that's when you all rolled really well for the blinding. It's coming up to you. Yet you look around the the warehouse and Aunt Min is gone.
Julia: Yeah, I figured.
Eric: Val you looked up after she intimidated Bones Body. And you're like, "oh, man, maybe she's actually kind of okay and good!" and then you look up and she's just gone and now it's Val's turn. So Val, you're just on the other side of the room, but you're still glowing purple.
Julia: I guess I'll just dash out of there.
Amanda: It's just Salimony, right?
Eric: Salimony, yes, it's just Salimony now.
Julia: Yeah. As long as he's not going to die in the ghostly hands, I don't really care.
Brandon: Can make any promises.
Eric: Yeah. He's not stuck in the ghost hands. He's just having some problems.
Julia: Yeah. Can I use my movement, and investigate some more boxes to see if I find any other cool shit and then leave?
Amanda: Yeah. I know I meant do that when I dropped in but then the action started.
Eric: Yeah absolutely. Go check in another box.doing an investigation.
Julia: I don't find anything.
Eric: What did you roll?
Julia: Technically again it is a 0.
[Eric and Brandon laugh]
Julia: I didn't find anything.
[Music fades out]
Eric: Yeah man you run over and you're like, oh I wonder if there's more shit in these boxes and then you trip over a box and you're like, oh fuck these boxes. Yeah, you kick it and bunch of like just left shoe sneakers, like tumble out of the hole that you kicked open.
[Warehouse lights humming]
Julia (as Val): Who took these off the back of a truck? They're all lefts. What, what were you thinking?!
Eric: Oh yeah. Yeah that's it. Then you can totally bounce out of there.
Julia: Cool.
Eric: Alright. It is now Aggie's turn. I can let you in the Knight of Mirrors and go on the same turn. You just want to get out of there?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Cool.
Brandon: I'm going to follow too.
Eric: Yeah. So let's go out of initiative. Milo, do you just want to keep the the ghost hands going, then Salimony will keep having to get out of them.
Brandon: Oh my dude it's not concentration, it just is there until each five foot square portion of the area requires at least one minute to clear by hand.
Amanda: Yeah!
Eric: Yeah yeah yeah. Okay, so yeah you're we're out of initiative now. Salimony is just struggling with the ghost hands. So I think you guys have a few like a minute or so to do something as Salimony is like
Eric (as Sal): Get these ghost hands off of mem Mary, Jesus, Joseph!
Brandon: And Milo's just in the back going, oooooooooo!
Eric: Catholicism will save you now! That was me, Eric came into the scene and said that. But yeah, so I'll give you like five minutes to wrap up whatever you want here. Salimony has, like, kicking the ghost away from him.
Brandon: Well, my only goal was to see the painting and bail, so I'm good to go.
Amanda: Yeah. I mean, I may just like peer in a couple more crates on our way out.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: Nat 20 baby for Amanda!
Eric: Yeah, Milo, you're fine. Alright, Aggie, why don't you roll your d10 twice, please.
Amanda: Ooo! A little use of d10.
Julia: Amanda gets two items!
Amanda: I got a 6 and then 5.
Eric: Alright. Wonderful. The Knight of Mirrors says
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Where uh, where do you want to go? Where should we take this thing?
Amanda (as Aggie): A that was clutch B, we got to go back somewhere safe and see. I would love to just look in a couple of these crates, make sure nothing is flammable in here.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): That's fine. Definitely. Definitely for the best.
Eric: Yeah, and you route some stuff through some crates, I think that you saw one that, like a bunch of the mobsters just dropped immediately, like before, like they were doing stuff. And then they're like, oh, we have to fight. So you're like "those two? Those are ones that have stuff in them" and run over to them that are next to each other. One you look in that, you see that there look like there's some Jordan ones in there. There's a black and gold ones which like just for the not sneaker heads out there, they're black and metallic colorway only had 12 pairs produced and were only distributed in Asia in 1985 because they were so popular they sold as much as twenty five thousand dollars. So you look around in there and you're like, "oh these are just incredible sneakers!" Then you look at them and you look at them again and they are Michael Jorban's with a B.
Amanda: Nice.
Eric: Instead of a D it's Michael Jorban ones. No, but they are still really good shoes and they look like Jordan ones. Unless you are looking really fine at them, you get +1 to intimidation and your jump is doubled.
Amanda: I'm going to like look up to my teammates and be like
Amanda (as Aggie): For scientific testing purposes!
Amanda: And then grab a pair.
Julia (as Val): They're not your style Preserver, but I appreciate you trying new things.
Amanda (as Aggie): Thank you. I mean, listen, I don't want to steal from stealer's, but is that good then we have to talk about it.
Julia (as Val): Listen, it's it's fair game once it's stolen. That's what my dad always told me.
Brandon: I like that Val and Aggie are just yelling at each other from across the warehouse.
Eric: And Salamony is like,
[Julia laughing]
Eric (as Sal): God, Jesus Christ, help me!
Amanda: Brandon this spell is very much like the magical equivalent of, like, shaving cream in someone's car, or like wrapping their whole desk like it's a nuisance. It takes a lot of time. And I really appreciate that.
Brandon: If there's one thing that Milo is, it's a nuisance.
Eric: So the other thing you find in this other box are there are some, I guess, decorative beakers or test tubes, you know, like when they they make like drinking water. So it looks like scientific stuff. These are like test tubes with little stoppers on them. And then you look closer at them and there are some really, really small, they have caps and stems. So I guess they would be mushrooms if you were looking at them. They're very, very small.
Amanda: I'll definitely take the biggest one I can find.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: So I'm going to not the laces of the sneakers together, put it around my neck and then put the test tube like safely in my jacket pocket, like on my chest and just try to secure the painting.
Eric: Yeah. Make a nature check for me Aggie?
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: 3.
Eric: Yeah, man, mushrooms again, weird, who can say, I hope they didn't put it in, like, my latte. That would be really I don't put don't put things in people's latte's that they don't want in there, or that they don't explicitly ask for.
Amanda: I agree.
Julia: You have to tell people what's in the ingredients and the things that they order. You can't just, like, put stuff in there.
Amanda: I couldn't agree more.
Eric: I think the Knight of Mirrors when they see the test tube, they go over and they grab one for themselves and they say.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): This is what? Hey can you give me the truffles from before?
Amanda (as Aggie): Sure,
Amanda: I take the plastic bag out from my pocket.
Eric: And they hold up both of them and like the stuff in the test tube is like a much, much smaller version of the truffle. It has the same striping on it. And like the little like purple iridescent glow.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Your friend was also glowing purple.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, something about the People's River. We're going to have to dig into it.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): It's also very, very similar to each other.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, well, we'll do some tests and share notes, but I think something in the laboratory should help.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): I mean, we could just we just try it now
Amanda (as Aggie): NO.
Eric: And they go as they pop open their-
Amanda (as Aggie): No no no no no.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): There's no I mean, I could just I'll - I could just take one.
Amanda (as Aggie): Are you doing, like, a friendship joke?
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): No, I'm going to do it to myself.
Amanda (as Aggie): Please don't. Please don't. Please don't.
Amanda: I'm going to grab it out of their hand.
Eric: Make a dexterity roll for me
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: 6
Eric: Well, the thing is, while you're leaving, you're also driving a motorcycle and trying to do this at the same time, like your dad driving a car, you're not able to focus on both at the same time. And you grab it from them like
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Hey can you - I listen. I'm not. Alright.
Amanda (as Aggie): We're just working together now. I want you to be around for a long time and you -
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Hey they're shipping, all of this it's not going to kill me.
Amanda (as Aggie): I mean, if it's a beta test of some psychedelic from the People's River, I don't know how dangerous it is.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Can you just give me give you mine back, please? I'm not going to take it in front of you, Preserver.
Amanda (as Aggie): Don't take it at all, man.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): I'm not going to take it. Period.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): That was a really long pause.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Just can I - please give you my back?
Amanda: I say, okay, and then I'm going to just meaningfully make eye contact with their helmet.
Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): Alright, fine. Alright.
Eric: Yeah. The Knight of Mirrors will drive you over to the truck Milo, you can get over there. Val do you want to go over to the truck? Or you just want to get out of there?
Julia: Val's going to call like a ride, share I guess?
Amanda (as Aggie): Vulcani, come on, I'll drop you off.
Julia (as Val): I mean, I'm...
Julia: Val gets real quiet and is like
Julia (as Val): I think in front of my family, the less interaction they see us having while I'm out of costume, the better.
Amanda (as Aggie): Alright, well, we'll wait until you get picked up.
Eric: A morrow- a Morrow-share you call Morrow-Share who's coming to pick you up.
Amanda: Where all drivers are employees and get pensions, health care benefits and-
Eric: Honestly, it's only LTC right now, but it could expand to like Austin and Chicago. They're not ready for L.A. or New York yet, but now-
Amanda: No they're scaling responsibly.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: I also make sure to grab Tuna out of the tree that they are just napping and quietly while everything blowing up around us.
Eric: Wonderful you grab Tuna and Tuna is like - ordinarily Tuna would be like cold? But now Tuna just feels like nothing like you're grabbing a stuffed animal.
Brandon (as Milo): Hmm. This is weird but better.
Eric: And then Tuna's like MRRRROWWW! And she gets out of your hands. Yeah. I think that you all pull away and now we're going to have a moment. We're to have a moment that all of you don't see in the warehouse as Salimony is like still kicking, kicking the hands off of him. And then finally they just disappear. And then Salimony like, brushes himself off and grumbles to himself, like straightens his suit jacket and grabs his two cross necklaces that he's wearing and kisses it. And he puts his right hand up to his temple and says,
Eric (as Sal): Hey, yeah, they're gone.
[Beat of silence]
Eric (as Sal): But what about the painting, isn't it a problem to have it?
[Beat of silence]
Eric (as Sal): I mean, I guess I never thought of it like that. Phase two starts now.
[Amanda gasps]
Eric (as Sal): Alright, I mean, I'll pick - I'll pick up pick up dinner. Do you want, like managot or I mean, our could get pizza too. Yeah, your regular, that's fine. Alright, so we eat dinner and then phase two starts.
[Everyone laughing]
[Theme music]