40. Join the Committee VI

With Dr. Morrow locked in, the LT3 speeds towards the Vitamin M factory and takes Gutenberg’s challenge. Everyone phones a friend. Everyone avoids the munchies.


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Transcript

Amanda:  Last time on Join the Party.

Eric:  In the aftermath of the gala kidnapping, Multitool and Kilonova took a breather, got some HP, ki points and spell slots back. Vulcani was still stuck to the Multitude siblings, who turns out, weren't fancy siblings at all, but copies of a villain working for Gutenberg. As the LT3 drove back to Dr. Morrow's mansion to regroup, they were accosted by one of Gutenberg's drones. Inviting them or challenging them, it's pretty much same, to a super-powered hero versus villain showdown at the Vitamin M factory. They grabbed Dr. Morrow and sped out to the marshes. Oh, yeah! We're doing some superhero shit. Let's get the party started.

[Upbeat Music]

[Wind in the background]

Eric:  I think I have to ask an incredibly important question to set the scene of what's happening here. Multitool, do you still keep your hands at 10 and 2, even if you have stretchy powers--

 [Brandon Laughs]

Amanda:  Most certainly.

Eric:  --allow you a larger, like, yaw of being able to turn the wheel.

Amanda:  Most certainly.

Julia:  See, the problem is with stretchy powers, by having it on 10 and 2, you don't even have to like, you know, hand over hand, kind of turn it. You just turn your arms and they twist like a, like a, I don't know.

Brandon:  Like a pretzel. Yeah.

Amanda:  Yeah, that's very true. I think I do, maybe flattened my palms out a little bit just for better grip, you know?

Eric:  I like that a lot. You just have big really flat hands.

Amanda:  Mmh-hmm.

Brandon: And then, your arms get all twisty and then I sprinkle cinnamon sugar on it and it's a delicious cinnamon twist doughnut.

Amanda:  I think if Milo ever said that to Aggie she would be like, 

Amanda (as Aggie): That's touching.

[Eric Laughs]

Eric:  Thank you.

Amanda:  I thought you were gonna ask Eric what's on the radio? And I think the answer is contemplative silence.

[Brandon and Eric laughs]

Julia:  Just some sports jockeys. Like, some real talk radio happening.

Brandon:  Yeah. Three guys with all of them with vaguely different Canadian accents, are all yelling about the Mountain Lobsters right now.

Julia:  Mmh-hmm. Mmh-hmm.

Eric: Quebecois? One a Newfoundlander. One’s Toronto. It's very funny. I still, like, it's the arms. It's like you need extra space because your elbows go all the way out.

Amanda:  That's a good question. Can I shrink? I don't think so.

Brandon:  Oh.

Amanda:  I think I can only stretch beyond my normal size.

Eric:  Yeah.

Amanda:  I think Aggie’s keeping her elbows in real close.

Eric:  I wonder if it's coiled like a spring.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Like, you, you've coiled your arms all the way around so that if you need it, you have more ability to stretch. Just some Aggie body horror corner really quickly.

Julia:  Just to start the episode off.

Eric:  Yeah.

Brandon:  The superhero version of Slinky Dog.

Amanda:  Aww! That's me.

Eric:  I like that. I think that we also see that because your arm is crossed over Dr. Morrow who has the window open and is kind of just, like, has her hand out the window. Like, moving it up and down in the flow of the air as you are driving. I can only assume at the speed limit.

Amanda:  Oh, baby we're three miles over. 

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric:  Oh, hey now.

Julia:  Three whole miles? We're gonna get arrested.

Amanda:  Three miles over. Mmh-hmm.

Brandon:  Val and Milo were just screaming at Aggie to go faster.

Eric:  As you're driving, it's 68 miles per hour.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Across Highway 1 to get to the Vitamin M and distribution plant where Gutenberg is told you to show up.

Amanda (as Aggie):  Now on the way, team, who are we calling in for backup? This is a must.

Julia (as Val):  I mean, I feel like we just text every superhero we know being like, "Show up to this location. We're gonna fight."

Brandon:  Other people.

Eric:  Cool.

Brandon:  Not, not each other.

Julia (as Val):  Specifically, not each other. It's not gonna be a battle royale.

Amanda:  Yeah, yeah.

Julia:  We're gonna fight a bad guy.

[Eric Laughs]

Amanda:  Val sends a text. Milo was like, "Wait." And then Val was like, "Fuck," and sends like, four more texts in a row. Yeah.

Eric:  Come to this spot if you want to fight.

Amanda:  Enemies not us. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Eric:  Gutenberg not me.

Brandon:  I want to make sure that we text Knight of Mirrors directly though. Not on the group chain so they feel special, you know?

Julia:  Yes.

Eric:  For sure.

Julia:  Because we're interrupting their anniversary so.

Brandon:  Yeah.

Eric: Incredible. Alright, so like, there aren't that many superheroes in Laketown City. So, are we really just talking about the Upcountry Keepers and the Knight of Mirrors, or do you want to see, do you want to, like, call some of the newbies who were there? What are you thinking?

Brandon: I mean, I would take Lou and Room, but I don't know how Room is feeling.

Julia: But I feel bad endangering a child.

Brandon: Yeah, but they're the smartest person in, in Laketown City. So, like.

Julia: I know.

Brandon: I feel like they would do better than we do.

Eric:  True. I will say you have already told Room to chill.

Brandon:  Yeah.

Eric:  Because of this exact reason.

Julia:  Yes.

Eric:  And Lou said that they had to go home to tell their parents that they were not at a party thing.

Julia:  Did the bee guy get kidnapped?

Eric:  Yes.

Julia:  Is he one of the people we have to save? Okay, cool. Otherwise, I would have been like, "We got to call the bee guy."

Eric:  Yeah. Out of the new folks, Hive and Wyvern are in there. Emily is probably definitely captured. You don't know where the other Upcountry Keepers are, except for Tuff Stuff who was like, "Wait a second. I don't know what's up."

Amanda: There are two people we've come across in our travels that I think are more on our side than Gutenberg's.

Brandon: The time shark.

Amanda: One. 

Eric:  Who is dead, supposedly,

Amanda:  One, is the Sommelier.

Eric:  Yes.

Julia:  Yeah.

Amanda: Powerful as all get out, was at the gala, did not get taken. And I think it's a pretty persuasive argument to say, "Hey. Gutenberg is trying to kidnap you too. Come help us kick his ass. Two, Fritz Brightstone. I would love to give Fritz a call.

Eric:  Mmh. Interesting.

Julia: I think he would be difficult to persuade, but I'm not against trying to persuade him. I also don't know what his superpower is. So, that would be curious.

Amanda: Me either. We just know that he was at that reunion.

Julia: Mmh-hmm, and he tried to be on the superhero team. Got real competitive about it.

Eric:  Interesting. Interesting. Alright, so, who wants to talk to who? Let's play some things out.

Amanda: I would like to call Fritz on my hands free, but someone, I mean, do we have this Sommelier's number? Like, how does this work?

Julia: Do I still have the guest list on hand?

Eric:  I'm gonna say that you can, if you saw them, then you can probably check the Google spreadsheet that had all of the rich people on it that definitely has the Sommelier's number on it. That's totally fine by me.

Julia: Cool.

Brandon:  Google spreadsheet is the real superhero.

Julia (as Val): I think Val texts the Sommelier, being like, "I will forgive past transgressions if you show up here and help us save some people who also tried to kidnap you earlier. Signed Vulcani." 

[Eric Laughs]

Eric: Dash, Vulcani.

Eric (as Sommelier):  I think the Sommelier says in response. "Cool. Thank you for the invite. The thing about being someone for hire is, I don't know if I can do that or not, but I will keep my options open."

Julia (as Val): How much money would it cost to come fight a supervillain?

Eric: The Sommelier sends you a rate card.

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric: Like a PDF--

Amanda:  Great.

Eric:  --that has her per hour on it.

Amanda:  Ah, delicious.

Eric:  And it's like, let me roll  at this. I rolled in nat one. 

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric:  Here's what happens. I rolled in that one. She sends a rate card that's from, like, five years ago.

Julia:  Good.

Eric:  So, it's actually a lot, it's a lot less expensive than you think it is. It was, like, right when she got her Sommelier license. So, it's actually like, only like, $200 an hour.

Julia:  Oh, I'll pay it immediately. I already Paypal-ed her.

Amanda:  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon and Eric laughs]

Eric (as Sommelier): And she responds with, "This is her 15 minutes. What do you mean?

Julia (as Val): No. According to your rate card, which you sent to me just now, I paid the rate for two hours.

Eric (as Sommelier): Shit. Okay.

Julia (as Val): For additional costs, please invoice Emily Slaughter. 

Amanda: Nice.

Eric (as Sommelier): She says, "I'm on the other side of town finishing something up. I will be there when I can."

Julia (as Val): For additional, for additional costs such as rush orders, please invoice Emily Slaughter.

Eric (as Sommelier): No, I will be there when I can. I need, I also need to update my rate card.

Julia (as Val): Fine.

Eric (as Sommelier): I sent you the wrong one.

Brandon:  I think that means that, if I did this math right, that means that Sommelier is $1600 an hour.

Julia:  That's pretty good.

Eric:  Yeah.

Brandon:  Okay.

Amanda:  I mean, great. Respect

Eric:  Yeah, yeah.

Brandon (as Milo): I'm going to text the Knight of Mirrors and I'm going to say, "Hey, KOM it's Milo. I know you are having--."

Eric:  Oh, you said, sorry. You said Milo and I'm only being a stickler about it because it's the Knight of Mirrors. The Knight of Mirrors, always requests that you use your, your name because to, to have good work life balance.

Brandon:  Yeah, no. And I was trying to be personable, so that makes sense. Yes. Okay.

[Brandon and Eric Laughs]

Amanda: You could do a gaff and, you know, endear them to you by humor.

Brandon (as Milo): Right. Milo deletes Milo and then puts Kilonova and says, "I know you're having a nice night in, but we could really use your help, and we're not sure that we can tackle this supervillain. Oh yeah, we're gonna go fight Gutenberg. Please, we could use your help. Thanks. XOXO. Gossip, Kilonova.

Eric:  Great.

Julia:  Why have we not been calling the Knight of Mirrors .KOM?

Brandon:  I don't know, that's pretty good.

Julia: That’s fun.

Eric:  Pretty good. That's pretty good.

Amanda:  It's pretty good.

Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): I think the Knight of Mirrors is gonna say, "Oh, man. Sorry, at anniversary, might need to do some things to make sure the wife doesn't go back and know where I'm going. It might be more tricky than I thought.” I think the knight of mirrors is feeling very, is conflicted and there's like, [Groans].

Julia (as Val):  One time opportunity to fight Gutenberg before we destroy him for the rest of time, obviously.

Brandon:  Yeah, that's actually exactly what I'm gonna say.

Amanda:  Bring the wife. Great date night.

Brandon:  That's was I was gonna say too.

Julia:  Don’t bring the wife.

Brandon (as Milo):  Can I roll a persuasion and be like, "This would be your one opportunity to take down Gutenberg with us. The wife is invited. Your partner is probably just as badass as you but if that's not the case, then maybe, yeah, we will give you cover. We'll give you, we'll validate your parking lie or whatever.

Eric:  Sure, sure. Okay, yeah. Make a persuasion check.

[Dice rolls]

Brandon:  Well, that's a three.

[Eric hums]

Julia:  Yeah, that's feels right.

Eric (as Knight of Mirrors): I the Knight of Mirrors says in response, "You know how I feel about my secret identity. I don't think I can reveal that to the wife, capital T capital W,”

Brandon:  Can I roll an insight? Because I want to know if Milo thinks the Knight of Mirrors is lying.

Eric:  Sure, yeah. You're gonna roll on the, the insight check is fine.

Brandon:  I got a 15+9 for 24.

Eric:  24.

Julia:  Wow.

Amanda:  A misplaced roll there.

Brandon:  Yeah. I know, right.

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric:  24. Okay. Why are they lying to you? I guess is your question?

Brandon:  No, just that they are lying or not. Like, are they actually at an anniversary dinner with their partner.

Eric:  With a 24, I will tell you probably not. They were being weird at the gala. I will say with 24, you know they're lying.

Brandon:  Okay.

Eric:  You don't know why they're lying. You don't know what they are actually doing, but they are not at an anniversary dinner with the wife. Maybe they said the wife too many times so that really like-- 

[Amanda and Brandon agrees]

Eric:  --they're laying it out a little thick. So, like, you don't know if they don't have a wife. You don't know if it's not their anniversary, and they do have a wife. You don't know any of this stuff, but you do know that they're lying. And right now, that they're trying to use every trick in the book not to have to come out, to reinforce this lie.

Brandon:  Okay.

Julia:  That's fair.

Brandon:  I'm gonna turn to my compatriots in the caboose. I'll try to look for alliteration there. And say--.

Amanda:  Car?

[Brandon Laughs]

Julia:  Wow.

Amanda:  Car, Brandon?

Julia:  Wow.

Brandon:  I have to be fired from this podcast. 

[Amanda Laughs]

Julia:  Mmh-hmm.

Brandon (as Milo): And I'm gonna say, "Y'all, I don't know what up, but Knight of Mirrors says they can't come. They're at their— They say they're at their anniversary dinner with the wife, but that's clearly a lie. So, I, I don't know. I'm out of ideas here.

Julia (as Val): Did they keep capitalizing the wife?

[Eric laughs]

Brandon (as Milo): They did, which is weird.

Amanda (as Aggie):  Yeah, I feel like they would not use that straightforwardly but also aren't cool enough to use it ironically.

Julia (as Val):  Yeah. 

Amanda (as Aggie):  So, we're in a real middle ground here.

Brandon (as Milo): So, did you guys have any success with other folks?

Julia (as Val): Oh, I paid the Sommelier $400 to show up. Hopefully, she does.

Brandon (as Milo): Perfect.

Amanda (as Aggie): Smart. Yeah, and I, just give me, give me a second I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try Fritz on the, on the hands free.

Eric:  Yeah. Dr. Morrow has stayed very quiet this entire time. Whether or not she's just in silent contemplation, or she is just has her hand out the window and is, like, just pushing against the air resistance as you're driving on the highway.

Amanda (as Aggie): Well, I have to roll the window up to use the Bluetooth so I'm going to roll it up, and then say, "Anything to contribute Dr. Morrow?"

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): No, I'm just thinking about all the ways I'm going to take that asshole apart.

Julia (as Val):  That's the vibe that we're going for in this car ride. Thank you very much.

Amanda (as Aggie):  Quite appropriate, quite appropriate.

Brandon:  I just realized that. Dr. Morrow's initials are DM and I see you Eric.

[Eric Laughs]

Eric:  Yeah. Dr. Cassandra is also DC so think about that.

[Brandon Laughs]

Amanda:  Wow. 

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  Yeah, she's, she says, "I've come up with about 1000 ways so far, but I don't think any of them are appropriately terrible enough to someone who would harm one hair on January's head. The, capital T, capital J. The January.

Brandon (as Milo):  One specific hair.

Julia (as Val): On the hare.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  The hair on the hare. There it is. And she goes, "Great. Good one, Milo.--

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  "--I'll remember that."

Amanda (as Aggie): This sounds appropriate. Okay, let me, let me try. Dr. Morrow, do you know anything about Fritz Brightstone besides being a Mountain Lobster?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): They should probably pay him or he's gonna go to the Dallas Stars.

Amanda (as Aggie): I know it's worth hitting the cap.

Eric:  Yeah.

Julia (as Val): He's gonna leave the Mountain Lobsters? What's happening? Hold on.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): If they don't pay, if they don't pay him enough, I don't have free agencies coming through, coming soon. I don't know enough about hockey to stick to anything more about this.

Julia (as Val):  Val just starts like steaming and being like, "He can't fucking leave Laketown City, that motherfucker."

Amanda (as Aggie): Let it fuel you. Let it fuel you Val.

Eric:  There's a lot of rumors of that Laketown City isn't big enough of a media market for Fritz Brightstone.

Amanda:  Hilarious.

Julia (as Val):  He's just gonna be the new John Tavares and, where everyone's gonna fuckin' hate him now. 

[Brandon and Eric snickers]

Amanda (as Aggie): Alright, I'm going to hook up my phone to the Bluetooth and call Fritz.

Julia:  It's not already hooked up to the Bluetooth? It doesn't automatically hook up when Aggie gets in the car? I'm shocked.

Amanda:  No. Aggie has a deep suspicion of both microwaves and Bluetooth. 

[Brandon Laughs]

Julia:  Is she an old Ukrainian grandma?

Amanda:  Yes.

Brandon:  Multitool is really different.

[Everyone Laughs]

Amanda:  Previous Aggie also had a suspicion of microwaves. I mean, look what happened to her entire family.

Eric:  And totally fair to have suspicions of microwaves, I would definitely say so. That's, it's a lot more accepted in Laketown City than anyone else to, like, not have a microwave in your house.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Fritz Brightstone. Oh, yeah. Alright, yeah, give him a call. This from the Aggie phone?

Amanda:  From Aggie's phone.

Eric:  Cool.

Brandon: I like the Aggie phone better. If we could—

Amanda:  From The Aggie phone, do do do.

Eric:  Why? How is Multitool Aggie related to Fritz Brightstone? How do they know each other?

Amanda:  I think that in this timeline, because Aggie was around so much less, like, her job in the forest takes her away for weeks or months at a time.

Eric:  Sure.

Amanda: She actually has a stronger kinship with Fritz than I think Aggie did in the previous timeline. Because previously, she was kind of like all around town, known to everybody, everything that it seems Fritz doesn't quite like about his celebrity. But now, in this timeline, Aggie as, as Multitool's forest ranger lifestyle, you know? They kind of crossed paths in a Steward’s and like, "Oh, yeah. How are you? What's up? What's going on?" Aggie is much less of kind of like a representation of the Laketown and the LTC hype that Fritz is maybe put off by than she used to be.

Eric:  Interesting. Yeah. I feel like there's something about you going away to the forest that is comparable to let's say 10-day-road-trip-through-the-Southwest when you have to play all those teams down there.

Amanda:  Yeah. Like, he might take his boats through the lock that she's operating, you know? A couple times a summer and, you know, pulls over and their dogs hang out and, you know, they have a beer after Aggie's shift ends. So, I think they, they probably have a, you know, a nice little kind of see-each-other-a-few-times-a-year friendship.

Eric:  Sure. I like that. I think there's also, like, Aggie looking out at a Firewatch station with nothing but, like, the radio with the Laketown City announcers on. Like, some game between, like, freaking Edmonton and LTC. And you, Fritz Brightstone scores and you, and then, like, a bird goes up into the sky. That's beautiful.

Brandon:  I really like that, that's a nice friendship. I like that. 

Julia:  That's great.

Amanda:  Yeah. I don't think they text a lot, you know? Like, she might like send him a, a text a couple weeks after, you know, the hockey finals and be like, "Hey, nice by the way, I'm you know, I'm on this lock. I'm on the Upper Saranac Locks, you know, June to September or something.

Julia:  I feel like they have a very casual, like, Snapchat-relationship or something.

[Brandon and Eric Laughs]

Julia:  Where it's just like, Aggie will send like, "A cool picture of a bird". Click.

Amanda: Yes. Oh, I love that, Julia. I think maybe Fritz is into, like, botanical identification. Or maybe he's like a volunteer--

Eric:  Sure.

Amanda:  --Like, marking eagles or something. They definitely have some sort of nature-related thing, or they just text to the pictures of eagles that they see.

Eric:  Especially if, I'm sure Fritz has a finsta too, which-

Julia:  Oh, yeah.

Eric:  --is just birds, right?

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Yeah. 100%. Okay.

Amanda:  Cool.

Eric:  Can you make an insight check?

Amanda:  Yes.

Eric:  And I will tell you why in a second. 

[Dice rolls]

Amanda:  Yeah, that's a 10. And I only have one luck point left. So, I'm not going to re-roll.

Julia:  Yeah.

Eric:  Okay. You have no idea what Fritz's powers is.

Amanda (as Aggie): No, I don't know.

Eric:  No. It has never come up.

Amanda (as Aggie): But in the same timeline, we were so surprised to see each other at that warehouse with Emily Slaughter. I think that's the only time we've ever come close to talking about it. And we never have since.

Eric:  100%. Yeah. I think, I think that's it. It's probably, it's, it's pretty late right now, and it's also July, so it's not during the season. So, you call him and he's just like, washing dishes at home.

Eric (as Fritz): He's like, "Aggie, I'm doing dishes right now. Would that bother you if I keep doing dishes while we talk?"

Julia: Cute.

Amanda (as Aggie): No, not at all. That's, that's so thoughtful of you. Listen, I, we're gonna have this phone call, and if at the end of it we decide never to talk about it again, that's fine. Remember that time, a year or so back when Emily had us all in that warehouse and I almost got hit by the ice cream truck?

Eric (as Fritz): Yeah. I do. Strange times, right?

Amanda (as Aggie): It was. Let it just be said that I've been, I've been doing more work in that space. Not the, the literal one out the back of that warehouse I know how to do it, but just, did she rent that obstacle course? Anyway—

Eric (as Fritz): Are you an Upcountry Keeper?

Amanda (as Aggie): I'm very not an Upcountry Keeper. I am Multiool and I am calling in every favor and friend that I have to my name, both of them tonight because we're going up against somebody with a lot more resources than we have. So, listen, you can end the call, finish your dishes, get on with your life, and I'll see you when I see you next time you're up in the locks, but if you have any inkling, ability, desire to get in the game or, or just chip in. I'm gonna send you an address and I'd love your help taking down some bad folks.

[Dice rolls] 

Amanda:  Can I roll persuasion?

Eric:  Yeah, if you want to.

Brandon:  Come on, Fritz. Come on, Fritz. Come on, Fritz.

Amanda:  And that, one on persuasion. So, I'm gonna use my last luck point.

Julia:  Oh boy.

Eric:  Oh boy.

Julia:  Oh, boy.

Amanda:  Okay, I got a 12 persuasion.

Eric:  Okay,

Brandon:  Not bad. Better than 10.

Eric:  There is a long silence on the other side of the the phone with just like though, I think it's just the water running, right? The water running into a pretty full sink of dishes. And I think after a while, you hear the water turn off, and Fritz says, "I'll see what I can do to help."

Amanda (as Aggie): Thank you. I owe you a Genny.

Eric (as Fritz):. Hmm. Click. Hell, yeah. 

Amanda (as Aggie): Now, I roll the window back down so Dr. Morrow can--

Eric:  Can ruminate. Yeah, ruminate. And then you hear Dr. Morrow at one point like, 10 minutes later you hear Dr. Morrow go, "Oh. Hmm." 

[Amanda and Brandon Laughs]

Eric:  And then she’s back to contemplative silence.

Julia:  I still have to text Tuff Stuff. And--

Eric:  Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, go ahead.

Julia (as Val): I think it's going to be from, like, Val's superhero phone. Not that I think Shannon Redwine ever had Val's actual, like, personal number, but just in case. And I think Val is like, "Meet here to help rescue the rest of your Upcountry Keepers. If you found any of the other ones, bring them with you. We got to get back your teammates."

Eric (as Tuff Stuff): Tuff Stuff then texts Aggie and says, "Hey. I don't know if you texted me from the LT3 phone number or something, but I haven't found any of the other one, any of the other folks. But I'll, I'll, you'll see me there."

Amanda:  Was that to my Multitool phone?

Eric:  Yeah, to the Multitool phone.

Amanda (as Aggie): Alright, I'll hand it back to Val to respond.

Julia (as Val): No, that's fine. Mission accomplished. That's all I needed, confirmation. I do thumbs up emoji on it.

 Eric (as Tuff Stuff): Tuff Stuff then responds in all caps, unsubscribe.

 [Amanda Laughs]

Julia (as Val): Go fuck yourself.

Eric:  Did you text that?

Julia (as Val): Val types that out but then immediately deletes it. No, stick to the plan.

Amanda (as Aggie): Proud of you Val.

Julia (as Val): So mad.

Amanda (as Aggie): Buying you ice cream after this.

Eric:  Hell, yeah. 

[Brandon Laughs]

Julia (as Val):  Okay.

Eric:  Incredible. Alright, so, I think that you're now all the way across the city on Highway One. You take the exit that goes out into the marshes. Very familiar to where, when you drove up only a few short months ago dealing with the LTC mob and those ridiculous Youtubers. As you get pretty close, I think that there starts to be a part where it gets marshy. Like, where you stop seeing—

[Julia and Brandon laugh]

Julia:  In the marshes, yeah. Mmh-hmm, makes sense.

Eric:  Where you start--. Alright, both of you.

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric:  When you stop seeing trees and it starts becoming scrub. And then, you start actually seeing some of the warehouses on the horizon that all of you lose service.

Julia:  Classic.

Eric:  No Wi-Fi. No LT3. No data. Everyone's stuff goes out and Dr. Morrow was like, "I have 7G. What is? I don't know what's happening."

Julia (as Val): That's not anything.

Amanda (as Aggie): Can you give us at least five?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Sorry, I meant, Oh, my 4G is out.

Julia (as Val): Dr. Morrow, did you invent 7G?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I cannot confirm nor deny how many G's there are.

Julia (as Val): You're not on the record. I just want to know.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Aren't we always on the record?

Julia (as Val): No.

Eric:  As she crushed as a can. A can of soda in her hand. She didn't finish.

Julia (as Val): You literally know our secret identities. I swear to God, I hope that we're not always on the record.

Amanda:  So, as we're approaching where we're going, instead of Super Power--

Eric:  Sure.

Amanda:  --which Preserver had, Multitool has Lay of the Land.

Eric:  Great.

Amanda:  I would love to roll perception on anything that's out of place in this environment. If there is a transponder that shouldn't be there. If there is some kind of blocker. If there are people lying in wait. Like, what looks off about the visage of this warehouse as we approach it.

Eric:  Great question. Please make that perception check.

[Dice rolls]

Amanda:  13+6 for a 19.

Julia:  Nice.

Eric:  19. I think you realize what happened because you eventually drive by a cell tower that is just completely broken in half. Just one half on the ground, the other half is sparking in the night right now.

Amanda:  Oh.

Eric:  It seems like someone has just taken the entire middle of this cell tower away and one is on the ground, and the other is just like, the little nub is still plunged into the ground. There's also telephone wires down that are sparking and very dangerous over in the distance. You also see that there's just, like, a massive divot that is in the ground, and that is, like, someone has plowed right through the ground. That it crosses through roads and the dirt, and sometimes that it goes straight through a warehouse, that has, like, a big hole in it.

Amanda:  Like, a bulldozer?

Eric:  Kind of like a bulldozer, yes. And with a 19, you see that there is a 30 foot tall mouth that is just chomping its way throughout the warehouse. You know, in Pokemon Sword and Shield, the Gengar. You know how the Gengar is just like a big mouth with like a little bit of face around it? 

[Everyone hums in agreement]

Eric:  It's like that.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Mostly mouth. And with a 19, I'll say that you recognize that this kind of looks like the Muncher. The villain you just fought a little while ago.

Amanda:  Oh, but he's 30 feet tall now?

Eric:  He is a 25 to 30 foot tall mouth. Just munching through everything

Julia:  Oh, no. Is it because he ate Room? Fuck.

Brandon:  Oh, it is, because he took a bite out of Room. Oh, shit. 

Eric: The mouth with the very small amount of face, like, encircling the top of it is glowing purple.

Amanda:  Oh, shit. 

Eric:  Also to the side with a 19, I will give you that you see that something is, like, coming into view every once in a while. Like, swinging nearby. You see the yarn guy kind of like throw a string of yarn through the air, Spider-Man swing through it, and then do it again with his other arm. Kind of like Spider-Man swing through a portal in the middle of the air. I'm gonna say that, "Hey, for all of you listeners out there, this is Threadbare. This is who I'm talking about.”

[Brandon snickers]

Amanda:  Ooh.

Eric:  So, we're gonna give him that name.

Julia:  This is like the gaunt bartender who had the yarn power.

Eric:  And he's, who is all made of yarn.

Brandon:  If he weren’t such a jerk. It'd be really cool.

Julia:  Yeah. 

Eric:  Yeah. Everyone, please make a perception check. 

[Dice rolls]

Julia:  A flat 18. Good job, dice.

Amanda:  17, perception.

Brandon:  16 + 9 for 25. 

Eric:  Perfect. Dang, you lucky dogs. While you were still this faraway, Milo you pull your eyes away from this giant-mouth and yarn-portal-man swinging by, and you realize that you're still pretty far away. So nearby, you see that there's a bunch of warehouses but there's one warehouse that looks different than all the others. Probably because there is a giant quilts pulled all the way over the top of this warehouse. It is like a wooly, dark blue, big scratchy blanket that has been pulled over this warehouse. Like, someone is hiding underneath it in a very easy game of hide-and-seek.

Brandon:  Does it looked like the same kind of material yarn that Threadbare is made of?

Eric:  Interesting question. I can say yes, but if you feel like well, you only can roll Arcana to, I can give you more. 

Brandon:  Okay, 

Julia:  That's okay. He's the only one that's good at arcana. 

Eric:  Julia, you also have to roll arcana, but it doesn't mean anything. You just have to say your bad roll on the, on the podcast.

Julia:  Fine. Here.

Brandon:  Can I cast guidance on it? 

Eric:  Yeah, sure.

Julia:  Seven

Amanda:  That’s a bad roll right there.

Julia:  Thanks. I'm gonna waste them on things that aren't important.

Brandon:  Well, Eric. I got the best possible results I could. I got a natural 20, a 4, and a +5 to arcana.

[Amanda gasps]

Julia:  Holy shit.

Eric:  Incredible. Yeah, I will tell you everything you need to know about this quilt. This quilt was made by Threadbare, one. Two, this quilt looks different than the portals you've seen. The portals seem to be ripping through the fabric of space and time, this is like the difference between making a magic thing and making a shield or a dome. This is protective, this is, like, heavy duty yarn. Like, if someone made you a sweater of this you'd be like, "Oh, thanks. This is going to be so scratchy. I have to wear two layers of long john’s underneath it so I don't scratch." Right, this is very resistant. So, maybe you can, you take out that bit of yarn that Vulcani had grabbed from before. You see that this is made out of different stuff. Maybe this one doesn't go up in flames. Maybe this one is resist, is more resistant to it and won't have that, that fire bonus that Vulcani had before.

Julia:  Oh.

Eric:  The one in the dome. This thing is not like what you would have fought before. Maybe if you can't damage it to take it off. Maybe it's going to be a lot harder to deal with than it was before as Vulcani burned it. It did not get double damage but it did still burn. You know what I'm saying?

Brandon:  Yeah, okay.

Julia:  This might not burn.

Eric:  This might not burn. I will give you one more thing.

Brandon:  Oh, okay.

Eric:  That nat-20, 29 mon frère, "Hey, how powerful do you have to be, to be swinging through the air on your yarn and also with, with the dome. You had seen Threadbare before set up and be able to activate them, but this feels like a much bigger job than just, like, setup trap, activate trap. He has just spent a lot of energy making this yarn and now is also doing co-op with Mega Muncher," which is a name that I will give you and you can, say in canon that you've come up with. The Mega Muncher.

Julia:  So, they're all, like, powered up on mushrooms is basically what we're feeling.

Eric:  Probably an easy place to get when you're at the Vitamin M distribution plant.

Julia (as Val): I think Val turns to Dr. Morrow at this point and is like, "So, we were having a conversation before you got into the car about like, you know, how much you knew about the mushrooms powering people before we brought it to your attention. How is this looking? This situation here, how are you feeling about this?

Brandon (as Milo): I just want to say that while Eric was explaining all of that, Milo took the piece of yarn from Vulcani and put it on his forehead with two fingers and closed his eyes and then explain everything that Eric's said outloud.

Amanda:  Extraordinary.

Eric:  Incredible.

Julia: Bad. Terrible 

Eric:  Incredible. So, now I'm going to lay out what's going on here. This is DM Eric stepping in.

Brandon:  Hi. Hey, Eric.

Eric:  Hey. Well, Hi. How you doing?

Brandon: I'm scared.

Amanda:  Eric, we're playing a really good game of D&D. I don't know if you, like, need us right now but, like, I just really want to get back to it. So.

Eric:  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's fine. That's fine. Here's what I'll say, this is the obstacle in your way, is the dome. You cannot deal with the Gutenberg problem until you get through the dome. You have to figure out the way to do that. Here's the second thing I will say. Mega Muncher and Threadbare are stalking around looking for you. Every so often, they might see you and then we're going to roll on it and then that might get activated and I'll deal with that then. With a 25, you are still far enough away that they have not noticed you. Shout out to that 25. Thank God you did.

Amanda:  I like the puzzle.

Eric:  Objective: Get into warehouse through yarn.

Julia:  I do want to check in on that question that I gave Dr. Morrow before I suggest my ridiculous suggestion for this puzzle.

Amanda:  Oh, yeah. I got a couple too.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Absolutely. Dr. Morrow says, "Well, unfortunately, the FDA does not have great standardization, you know, like how you have to check meat before it goes out. The FDA doesn't do that for supplements, and I think that that's real bad of the FDA.

Julia (as Val): Cool. What I was asking was your knowledge of power-up-mushrooms before we brought it to your attention?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Hmm. In science, sometimes you have a hypothesis, which is like a guess that you kind of throw on a whiteboard, and you're not exactly sure how it's going to end up. When you brought those Delta-radiated-mushrooms to me, I realized we had a much more serious problem that this is in distribution. If you're talking about the bear spray that I've given to your compatriot here. Uh. Hmm.

[Silence]

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): George Washington Carver came up with--

[Brandon laughs]

Julia (as Val): I will not be condescended to. Answer my question.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): We knew some of it, what it could do. Maybe let's say two of the things the peanut could do, not all hundreds just yet.

Julia (as Val): Okay.

Amanda (as Aggie):  Who's talking about peanuts? What peanuts?

[Brandon Laughs]

Amanda (as Aggie): What do you mean?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  They’re metaphorical peanuts!

Amanda (as Aggie):  Fuck.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  It's metaphorical peanuts. 

Julia (as Val): Follow up question.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Sure.

Julia (as Val): Knowing this information now, do you know how to counteract the effects of those mushrooms having now studied and realized, "Oh, we got a fucking problem." Have you come up with solutions to said problem to make our lives easier and to make it easier for us to get January back? And also other people but mostly January.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): No.

Julia (as Val): Damn it.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Unfortunately the answer is no. We know how to power up. We know how to take away but we do not know how to take away power-up. That is still in the experimentation phase.

Julia (as Val): Well, here's the thing as well, if these people are high on fucking mushrooms that have given them better superpowers, in the past, we've had experiences where we had some bad hangovers after those, those times on the mushrooms, right?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Sure.

Julia (as Val): Aren't all these people gonna, like, maybe crash from this mushroom usage?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Theoretically. You, you have more real, you have more real world experience about this than I do, but it seems like the, the data is bearing out that as it, as it, as it is.

Amanda (as Aggie): Is there a way to accelerate the metabolism?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I hate, I don't like saying that I don't know things. So, I'm gonna gonna go with maybe.

Julia (as Val): I've got a little girl who's smarter than you. I'm gonna give her a call because she's got fucking answers.

Brandon (as Milo): Does Lou have any biographies yet? Can I read them?

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I don't how. I don't know. I don't know. [stutters] You got me. I don't know a thing.

Brandon (as Val): Alright, let's come up with solutions then.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I don't, and that's why January is gone because I didn't know enough things. Great. Is that what you want me to say, Vulcani?

Julia (as Val): No, I wanted you to feel bad about it on your own. Anyway-.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): And I do. I very much feel bad.

Julia (as Val): Let's work the problem here people.

Amanda (as Aggie): I think this is a, this is a really good moment for me to share with you all something that I learned from my baby sister's friend Taylor, which is, "If my wishes came true, it would have been you." 

[Everybody Laughs]

Amanda (as Aggie): And that is just something that I've been going through my mind.

[Eric Laughs]

Eric: I need to, I’m sorry— Amanda has the lyrics. The lyrics of Taylor Swift songs up right now.

Amanda (as Aggie): I do have a listicle of the top lyrics of Folklore that read like books. How are we going to get through this impenetrable shield?

Julia (as Val): I have a suggestion. Val raises their hand. 

Amanda (as Aggie): Val, we're all equal partners here. Go for it.

Julia (as Val): So.

Amanda (as Aggie): Except Dr. Morrow. You're like, you're like our trainee, really.

Julia (as Val): So, big guy eats anything, right? Can literally eat anything from past experiences.

[Eric hums in agreement]

Julia (as Val): What if I stood on top of the dome-rug-thing that's happening here? And I went, "Hey, man. Come over here. Come over here." And then I jumped out of the way at the last second and then he ate through the shield and then we can get it inside.

Amanda (as Aggie): I love that. I can bounce you up and catch you on your way down.

Brandon (as Milo): I think maybe we come up with plans that don't put you in danger real quick. 

Julia (as Val): Well, options. You have any, like, illusionary stuff?

[Brandon laughs]

Julia (as Val): Can it, can it look like me but it's not actually me?

Amanda:  Oh.

Brandon (as Milo): Oh, that's a good question. I don't--

Amanda (as Aggie): I can also bounce and basically don't take falling damage. So, I can also be this person.

Brandon (as Milo): I don't think I do have any illusionary stuff, but I do have some other ideas.

Julia (as Val): Okay, bounce ‘em, bounce 'em.

Brandon (as Milo): One, I could use some lightning to maybe try to catch a thing on fire. It probably won't work though, but two, I could use control winds where I can make, like, a basically a big updraft and maybe if we can see how it's staked into the ground or not. And maybe if it is, then maybe we can lift it up.

Amanda (as Aggie): Love that.

Brandon (as Milo): There's insect plague. Maybe we, I conjure some moths and they eat the fabric.

Amanda:  Hell, yeah.

Eric:  Interesting.

Julia:  I do love that.

Amanda:  I love that a lot.

Julia:  That's a great concept. I like that so much.

Amanda (as Aggie): That's wonderful. Or we drive them out of the warehouse by conjuring the moth, like, just under the blanket.

Brandon:  Oh, yeah.

Julia:  Moth damage. I'm a big fan of. 

Brandon (as Milo): Let's also conjure elementals, where I can make, like, a fire creature but again, I don't know if it'll light on fire.

Julia:  Yeah.

Amanda (as Aggie): Well, could the fire creature stand in for Vulcani?

Julia (as Val): Oh, yes. What if fire elemental looks like me? 

Brandon (as Milo): Yeah, but I don't want to, like, I think it is an actual, like, person. Like it’s a being.

Julia (as Val): Yeah, but if it's you it's probably like a fire ghost, you know? Nothing is gonna happen to it, it's just got to go back to the ghostly plane. The Phantom Zone. I'm sorry.

Amanda:  I love all these ideas.

Brandon:  That's true.

Amanda:  My idea was---

Eric: The Phantom Zone is very funny.

Amanda:  --Aggie, big into crochet, big into knitting. What if I untied it at the corner and unraveled it?

Julia:  Also an option.

Brandon:  Also a good option. So, what I'm hearing is we need to investigate how it is first attached to the--.

Julia:  Yes.

Amanda: Yeah.

Julia:  Is it just like a weighted blanket where it is draped over it, or is it attached to the ground? So, maybe this is the point where we get out of the car so we can be a little sneakier.

Brandon:  Yes.

Julia: And we can, like, go check out the, the stuff.

Amanda:  Yeah, I can also, like, I have evasion of, like, area effects. And I can't fall so I think I can go on top of the blanket too.

Brandon:  Cool, cool.

Amanda: I think it should be like, "Let's investigate it. I'll see if I can unravel the corner. Then let's try updraft/moths, then I'll try to climb up top.

Eric:  Cool. Sounds good.

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[Midroll music]

Eric:  Alright, here we go. So, because Milo had such a good perception check you are all pretty far away. So, you, if you want to get closer to try to get up all in there, you're gonna have to move. You're like a bunch of blocks away I guess is the only way for me to say that. It's just that the, both Mega Muncher and the quilt are so big. You saw it from very far away.

Julia:  Can we do a stealth check with the car? Like, can the car get the stealth check?

Eric:  You can try to stealth check the car. It will be less stealthy I guess is the only thing I can say.

Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, I'll just turn my headlights off. Park behind a bush and we'll walk over.

Julia: Okay.

Eric:  Cool. Yeah. You pull over, you can get out of the car. Dr. Morrow like, "Am I, should I come?"

Julia (as Val): Yes.

Amanda (as Aggie): Yes, Dr. Morrow. 

Brandon (as Milo): Bring your largest guns.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I don't want to get in them, I don't want to get in the middle of your whole, of your thing. I just want to, I also, I think I'll have my smallest guns, which terrifyingly.

Julia (as Val): Are the most powerful ones. Yes, we've see Men in Black.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): What is, what is that? 

[Amanda snickers]

Julia (as Val): Val just glares. Excuse you.

Brandon (as Milo): Alright, I need everyone to circle up and hold hands with your palms, palms facing up. Alright. We call upon the Spirits of the Spirit realm to make our footfalls not be quite so loud.

Julia (as Val):  It's weird because he's never done this before, before casting the spell.

Eric (as Tuna): I don't or I'll take care of it. You can just walk around like a little cat. You're like a little cat.

Brandon (as Milo): Thanks. Thanks Tuna.

Eric (as Tuna): Meow.

Brandon (as Milo): I do a little scritch behind the ear.

Eric:  Tuna leans into the scritch.

Amanda:  Yo.

Brandon:  Alright, so I'm going to cast Pass Without Trace on everyone. So, it gives you a +10 bonus to dexterity self-checks.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Brandon:  And I'll roll my spell surge.

Julia:  Oh, please, please. 

Eric:  What's your spell surge at?

Brandon:  Oh.

Julia:  Oh, come on, Brandon.

Brandon:  No, no, no. It's fine. My spell surge is at 7, I rolled an 8.

[Amanda, Eric and Julia groans]   

[Brandon Laughs]

Julia: Oh Brandon. I have anxiety every time Brandon rolls.

Eric:  Okay, here is how we're going to do this. I know you all have Pass Without Trace on. However, you're still pretty far away. I honestly would say you're, like, three stealth checks away.

Julia:  Okay.

Eric:  So, you will average out all of your stealth checks together and then I will make perception checks on behalf of Threadbare and Mega Muncher, okay?

Julia:  Okay.

Eric:  Cool. So, let's make some rolls, huh.

Brandon:  Cool.

Amanda:  25.

Julia: Cool, same.

Brandon:  17 for me.

Eric:  I rolled a three. Dr. Morrow I will tell you has -1 to dexterity.

Julia:  +9.

Eric:  Plus, yeah, I suppose. I suppose she had got 12, and Brandon, you got 17?

Brandon:  Yes.

Eric:  Okay. That all averages out to— I'm rounding it up to 20.

Amanda:  Whoo.

Julia:  Great.

Eric:  Threadbare together, that them working together, they have +6 to perception, because they're high. They're high up and they're looking for you, so…

Brandon:  And they're juiced.

[Dice rolls]

Eric:  And they're juiced. I got a 17.

Julia:  You rolled a flat 17 on the dice?

Eric: I know, I rolled in 11+6.

Brandon:  Oh, Jesus.

Eric:  11+6, 17.

Amanda:  Phew.

Eric:  You guys are safe for now. You scamper behind one warehouse. You look inside and you see they're selling fake sneakers in there. It's an Air Jorbans warehouse.

Julia:  Cool. Cool.

Amanda:  Great.

Brandon:  Classic.

Amanda:  Alright, again.

Eric:  And we're gonna go again.

Julia:  Ooh, that's great.

Brandon:  Imagine the Hall of the Mountain King is playing right now. 

[In the Hall of the Mountain King plays]

Eric:  Wonderful. 

Julia:  29. 

Eric:  Jesus.

Amanda:  Julia, what's this little squid on my dice? What does that mean?

Julia:  Oh, is that a Nat 20, Amanda?

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  I will need to do, because ordinarily I--

Amanda:  Oh, so, so you want my 37?

Eric:  Thank you.

Amanda:  Yeah, okay.

Julia:  Incredible.

Brandon:  I got 21. 

Eric:  Dr. Morrow got a 19.

Julia:  Great.

Eric:  I need to get a 27.

Julia:  They literally can't get 27. 

[Brandon laughs]

Eric:  If I roll on that 20 they'll, they'll find you.

Julia:  Did you roll a Nat 20?

Eric:  I rolled a 19.

[Amanda, Brandon, and Julia exclaims]

Eric:  Alright. You sneak up very, very close by.

Brandon:  What's in this warehouse that we see? 

Eric:  That's a good question. Yeah, that's a good question. I actually, let me look at my notes.

Julia:  You wrote it down.

Amanda (as Aggie): It's leggings? We have to join a membership pyramid in order to buy or sell those?

Julia:  It's those Tiktok leggings that make your ass look really good. 

[Brandon Laughs]

Eric:  Yeah, you, I think at this point, I think Mega Muncher gets closer. I think that they, it comes very close by as a [Munching noises] Crash, crash, crash. [Munching noises]. And they look around. They look around as you dart behind another warehouse. And there's a moment and you hear, [Munching noises] as they keep going. And Threadbare also looks around from a hanging, from a chunky yarn thread and looks around and doesn't see you. You also, you see that Mega Muncher, you know how the Incredible Hulk hulks out of his clothes, and all he's doing is wearing shorts? 

[Brandon laughs]

Amanda:  Yes.

Julia:  Mmh-hmm. Mmh-hmm.

Eric:  You see that like, like, there's a little body attached to the big mouth. And like, it's like someone wrapped a very large scarf made out of yarn around the body and face that is not mouth of Mega Muncher.

Brandon:  That's incredible. I love it.

Eric:  And it's like autumn colors. Like, like, ochre and orange and goldenrod. 

Amanda: And ochre, and ochre, and ochre.

Eric:  And ochre, and ochre, and ochre. Because they almost saw you but now this is the most dangerous sneak you have to do. I'm going to give myself +8, okay?

Julia:  Fine. 

Brandon:  I mean, okay.

Amanda:  It's not like we can fight you on this.

Brandon:  I know.

Julia: 27.

Amanda:  Just a 20 for me.

Eric:  High stakes y'all. High stakes.

Brandon:  17 for me, Jesus.

Julia:  Oh, no.

Eric:  27 + 20

Julia:  Come on, Dr. Morrow.

Brandon:  What did she get?

Eric:  Dr. Morrow rolled a Nat 1. However, I'm letting the same thing ride with the 20 that I'm going to use the number. So, it's just 10, okay?

Julia:  Okay.

Eric:  Because I didn't give you automatic success on that, I'm gonna ride on the same thing because it's an average. The number is 19, I have +8. I need to roll 11 or higher for the Muncher to see you.

Brandon:  We fucked.

[Dice rolls]

Eric:  I rolled a nine.

[Brandon laughs]

Julia:  Thank God.

Amanda:  Eat shit. Eat anything besides us, Muncher.

Eric:  Alright.

Brandon:  Munch that dice Muncher.

Eric:  The Muncher munches in a different direction. They don't see you. You are now, like, very close to the yarn-dome, to the quilt. You're still hiding behind. Like, the closest other building to the Vitamin M Distribution Factory. You now see it is this midnight blue quilt that has been draped all the way over the warehouse.

Brandon:  Eric, can I touch it?

Eric:  If you want to.

Brandon:  I'm gonna touch it.

Amanda:  Yeah, can I get specific on, like, how it's made? Like, is it knitted, is it crocheted?

Eric:  Yeah, for art. For art. I wonder what is that? I think it would be arcana because it's like arcana we've now been, like, how should this made, and this is.

Julia:  Yeah.

Eric:  Yeah, arcana is how it's made. If you want to touch it, it would be investigation. If you want to look at stuff, that's perception.

Amanda:  So, I can do a check on behalf of the group now with the stakes.

Brandon:  Let's flip it then because I have +9 to perception. So, if you want to do the touching and the weaving because you have a better investigation, right?

Amanda:  I have better investigation. I was gonna investigate the stakes first since that's our plan A. 

Julia:  I have 0 or -1 to all of these. So.

Brandon:  Eric, with looking at the, the way it's hooked up to the ground of the building, be investigation or perception?

Eric:  Perception.

Brandon:  Okay.

Amanda:  Okay.

Brandon:  So, I'll do that and then you do the other one?

Amanda:  Yeah.

Brandon:  Lovely.

Eric:  Alright, so to look at how it's fascinated, we'll do a perception. If you want to touch it and see what it's made out of a little bit more. I mean, you can do investigation, or you want to look for, like, a loose thread, that would be investigation and then arcana is how it's made and what's the deal with it. 

Brandon:  Well, I wrote perception and your boy god 13 total. So.

Eric:  Great, with a 13, you see that there aren't stakes holding it down. However, it is held in place. I know I'm saying it's like you draped a quilt over it, but it really is a dome. Like, it's like, it is like a massive shield that has been draped over this thing. So, I'm going to tell you that the air draft plan, not going to work

Brandon:  Okay. Is it flushed against the, like, grass ground?

Eric:  Yes, it is pressed up against the ground. You can't, like, look under it. There's no seams. It is cable knit though but the holes in between are too small for you to look in.

Amanda:  Is it like, it's a tea cozy on a mixing bowl, and the mixing bowl is turned over on top of the factory? Is it like that? 

[Brandon snickers]

Amanda:  Just a visual for myself.

Julia:  I'm sorry. Explain.

Eric:  For all the Amanda's out there, I'm gonna go with yes. 

[Everyone Laughs]

Amanda:  Okay.

Eric:  Incredible.

Amanda:  I would like to look into how it is knit, specifically, because I've had lots of blankets and repaired lots of things. I want to just start unraveling it if there's an ability to do that from one of the edges.

Eric:  If you want to look for a thread to pull on, you make an investigation check.

Amanda:  Yeah. 

[Dice rolls]

Amanda:  3 + 4. 

Eric:  7? 

Brandon:  Damn. 

Amanda:  7.

Brandon:  Bad rolls for both of us.

Eric:  You look around, this seems to be pretty well knit. There are no extra threads. There's no little things that are sticking out. You're like, "Damn. It is some, some great needles that someone used." 

Julia:  Can I give Aggie a help action in investigating and trying to find this--

Eric:  Sure. If you want to give up your roll, you can do a help action.

Julia:  Yeah, because I'm not good at anything else. So, do that.

Brandon:  Julia, you're good at plenty.

Julia:  Oh, thanks bud.

Eric:  Burning.

Amanda: Good news it's a 19.

Brandon:  Yay.

Julia:  Great.

Eric:  Okay. You look around and you're like, "Damn, how, this is really well made." There has to be something here but you know even the best quilts probably have a thread somewhere. You don't see it, but you suspect that there is one.

Amanda:  So, in normal life where I would check for this vulnerability is the middle, do I have a sense of whether it's at the top of the dome, or whether it's like a random place elsewhere on the thing.

Eric:  The middle is the top of the dome.

Amanda (as Aggie): I'm going to turn to my compatriots and say, "Revised plan. I should bounce up there. See if there is a thread to pull and if there's not, just attract attention instead."

Julia (as Val): Okay, well on the plus side, you will be stealthy until you're ready to not be stealthy.

Amanda (as Aggie): Right.

Julia (as Val): So, that's good. Maybe they won't notice you up there.

Amanda (as Aggie): Dr. Morrow, any observations now that you see this material up close? Or are you just like, "Hold me back. I'm ready to fuck up Gutenberg personally."

Brandon:  Can we have Dr. Morrow roll an arcana check?

Eric:  Yeah, I can roll an arcana check for it. 

Amanda:  Please.

Brandon:  And I know this is, this is not the case but I do in my head, the next moments that happen is that Tuna comes out and just balls in into this yarn ball.

Julia:  Adorable.

Amanda:  Oh, yeah.

Eric:  Damn, yeah. Tuna pulls on the thread and then it's just a ball of yarn. 

Amanda:  Yay.

Eric:  Damn it, you solved my yarn puzzle.

Brandon:  And they just bat at it.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Dr. Morrow rolled a three. She's like, "I'm gonna fuck up. I'm gonna fuck up whatever is in there. I'm gonna take them out. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Hold me back. Hold me back. No one is holding me back."

Julia (as Val): Val gently loops an arm around her waist. 

[Imitates struggling noises]

Eric:  She's punching and kicking as Val, you got like one hand on her chest.

Amanda (as Aggie): Okay, guys, I'll be right back then.

Brandon (as Milo): Okay.

Julia (as Val): Be careful.

Amanda (as Aggie): I'll try.

Brandon:  Can me and Vulcani prepare an action?

Eric:  Sure, what would you like to do?

Julia: Yeah, what do you want to do?

Brandon:  In case shit breaks bad, can we have an attack ready? So, we get, like, an extra attack?

Julia:  Sure.

Eric: Great question. How about, I'm framing it like this and tell me what, what do you think. If Mega Muncher and Threadbare, run over here and see Aggie and because you're ready for it, I will give you advantage on initiative.

Brandon:  Wonderful. Okay.

Julia:  Cool. I already have advantage on initiative so.

Eric:  I will give Vulcani +3 to initiative and I'll give Kilonova advantage on initiative.

Brandon:  Sick.

Julia:  I would also like to ready an action where if I noticed that they have noticed Aggie, I want to cast Create Bonfire somewhere away from the dome.

Eric:  You can do one of those. So, you can either get ready to fight or you can do the bonfire.

Julia:  I already have advantage on initiative so I will do the bonfire action as a distraction.

Eric:  Hell yeah. Alright, you want to, you want to stealth up there?

Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. Multitool is gonna give a little salute to her teammates. Good luck. And just run up side of the dome like monks do.

Eric:  Incredible. How are you able to do this because of your stretchy powers?

Amanda: Oh, Eric, my feet get wide and flat. Like a duck.

[Eric Laughs]

Eric:  Incredible. Alright. 

Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. So, my, I'm going to run up to the very center of the dome, and I want to look for that loose thread.

Eric:  Alright. Make a stealth check. I'm keeping my +8.

[Dice rolls]

Amanda:  I got a 24.

Eric:  Whoo, baby. Alright.

Julia:  Very good. Very good.

Eric:  Multitool, you stretch up to the top of its dome. It is like walking on, on an inflatable bouncy castle up there. It's just so pillowy as you step from one thing to another. 

Amanda (as Aggie):  Multitool whispers, "This is pretty fun."

[Brandon snickers]

Eric:  And as you were springing, I think you hear from far away and be like, "No, they were behind us. Mega Muncher, go." [Munching noises]. I rolled a Nat 20--

Brandon:  Oh, my god.

Eric: --and they are barreling straight for you. Everyone roll initiative.

Julia (as Val): Great. Can I as my reaction cast bonfire, like, 60 feet to the right of us. So, as like, a like, "Oh. Maybe they're over there."

Eric:  Absolutely. I let you point to a direction and there's just, like, a volcano just kind of like bursts out of the ground, like, 60 feet away. And was like, "No, I don't want fire in my mouth."

Julia: Okay, I rolled a 16.

Brandon:  Oh.

Amanda:  11 for me.

Brandon:  I got 18 total.

Julia:  Nice.

Eric:  Hell yeah. Alright, going first right now, it is our good ghostly friend, Kilonova.

Brandon:  Yes.

Julia:  Yeah.

Amanda:  Yay.

Brandon:  I was hoping that would happen.

Eric:  Yeah, what do you want to do, bud?

Brandon (as Milo): Alright, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna cast me Erupting Earth.

Eric:  Nice.

Brandon (as Milo): I'm gonna churn up a fountain of earth and stone of a 20 foot cube. Like, right in front of them. Like, halfway where they are and 10 feet in front of them.

Eric:  Hell yeah.

Brandon (as Milo): First, they make a dex saving throw and they take 3 D12 on a failed save.

Eric:  Incredible. Is it, this is when the ghost's hands come out of the ground, right? Like, this is what you did against the Roman--

Julia:  Italian.

Eric:  --Catholics.

[Eric Laughs]

Brandon:  Yeah. So yeah, yeah, yeah. In flavor, just tons and tons of ghostly hands erupt from the earth like a horrible graveyard.

Eric:  Hell yeah. I think that they grab onto Mega Muncher, and try to truly pull him down into the depths of hell. But Threadbare is able to teleport away a little bit or at least yank on the yarn to get himself out of trouble. So, Mega Muncher failed but Threadbare passed.

Brandon:  Okay, cool. And I'm actually going to cast a level 5 so it's going to be 5 D12.

Eric:  Hell yeah, Let's do it, bud.

Brandon:  And it is also difficult terrain.

Eric:  Perfect 

Brandon:  By the way.

Eric:  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great.

Brandon:  That was the main goal. Let's see.

Amanda:  The really fucked up things that I bought Eric, the die that he's using to wreck my shit. 

[Julia Laughs]

Brandon:  So, I got a total of 31 damage.

Eric:  Let's go.

Amanda:  Good job.

Eric:  Incredible, yeah. Those hands are grabbing.

Brandon (as Milo): And you see Milo strain with both hands out in front of him.

Eric:  Yeah, there's some little cat paws in the hands now. Maybe some little, some little dog paws as well.

Brandon:  Yeah, this is definitely less practice and more just, like, panic reaction, Milo.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  I love it. Hey, is that a spell, my man?

Brandon:  Oh, shit it is.

[Eric Laughs]

Amanda:  Shit. Not an eight. Not an eight. Not an eight.

Brandon:  I got a six.

[Amanda Groans]

Julia:  Oh, boy. Of course. Of course.

Amanda:  Maybe it'll be good. Maybe it'll be good. Maybe it'll be good.

Eric:  Yeah, roll D10 for me.

Amanda:  Maybe it'll be good.

Brandon:  Okay, D10. That's three.

Eric:  Oh, no. Oh, buddy.

Julia: Oh, no. I don't like that.

Eric:  I think as the earth erupts and the hands grab Mega Muncher and Threadbare, and you're concentrating with all of your might. You see that the ground opens up below you and two jackal paws pull you down.

Brandon:  Great.

Eric:  And they are wrapped around your hand. You are, like, halfway in the ground and halfway above. You cannot move for three turns.

Brandon:  Three turns.

Eric:  So, I'm gonna say one full minute.

Brandon:  Okay, can I act just not actually move?

Eric:  Correct.

Brandon:  Cool.

Amanda:  Brandon, you can do a lot half buried in the ground.

Julia:  Yeah, you're fine. You don't have to move.

Amanda:  This could be much worse.

Eric:  Unfortunately. It also feels like is there like sandpaper against my feet?

Amanda:  Oh, shit.

Eric:  Oh, no, these are cat tongues. Who's licking my feet? 

[Amanda and Brandon laughs]

Eric:  It is now Mega Muncher's turn. Mega Muncher is stuck in those hands.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  However, Mega Muncher opens their mouth real wide and sucks in and, like, you look behind and you see a bunch of just debris, is flying towards Kilonova and Vulcani. That does not hit on top of the dome.

Brandon:  And Dr. Morrow I assume, right?

Eric:  And Dr. Morrow as well, correct. Vulcani, Kilonova, Dr. Morrow make dexterity saving throws.

Julia:  Now, would this be a thing where I could use danger sense, which is advantage on dexterity saving throws against effects that I can see?

Eric:  Correct.

Julia:  Cool.

Brandon:  That's how you use it? 

[Brandon laughs]

Eric:  That is how you use it, buddy. You see a warehouse is getting disassembled behind you and is getting sucked into the mouth.

Julia:  19.

Brandon:  Should I have disadvantage on this Eric since I am?

Eric:  Correct.

Brandon:  Okay.

Eric:  I love you. You're great.

Brandon:  I look, I— It only make sense.

Eric:  Yeah.

Julia:  True.

Brandon: I got a nine total.

Eric:  Wonderful. Okay. I want to tell you this is 12 D6.

[Brandon groans]

Eric:  Kilonova and Dr. Morrow take 45 points of damage.

[Brandon groans]

Eric:  And Val please take half of that.

Julia:  Oh, half of that? 45?

Eric:  So, which will be 22.

Brandon (as Kilonova): Okay, so I'm down to 15 hit points, but I do get to use my Halo of Spirits so in my head, Tuna just kind of jumps out and scratches the Mega Muncher on the face.

Eric:  And that's truly what it looks like. And you can imagine how much damage that does.

Brandon:  It does 9 points of damage actually. At 10th level.

Eric:  Yeah.

Amanda:  Nice.

Eric:  Cool. Dr. Morrow, you see, you look back. Dr. Morrow was there and now there is a pile of rubble in the area of where Dr. Morrow was crouching there. Dr. Morrow is buried under some rubble y'all.

Amanda:  Is she down or just incapacitated?

Eric:  You don't know. I roll for Dr. Morrow. It is now Vulcani's turn.

Julia:  Well, the fact that he just rolled probably means she's down to making death saving throws.

Eric:  I don't know. Who can say? Maybe I'm trying to fake you out. Who can say?

[Brandon snickers]

Julia (as Val): Well, I can't do anything about that, really. 

[Amanda laughs]

Julia:  I'm gonna go ahead and use Firebolt to try to shoot Threadbare out of the air.

Eric:  Hell yeah.

Julia:  18 + 7.

Brandon:  That hits.

Julia:  Cool. Do I also add fire damage to that?

Eric:  Sure. Why not?

Julia:  Alright. Oh, well I rolled a 10. That's cool.

Eric:  Nice.

Amanda:  The more Eric let's us fuck around, the more confident that means he is in his fight, and that makes me nervous. 

[Eric laughs]

Julia:  5. So, a total of 15.

Eric:  Wonderful. Yeah, you blast them with some fire and Threadbare goes, "Ah. I still don't like it. Even though it's, I'm not, I'm not wool. I still don't like it. Stop it. Sucks. 

Julia (as Val): No.

Eric (as Threadbare): You wouldn't treat your arts and crafts like this. Imagine these are my arts and crafts. I spend time on these.

Julia (as Val): Yeah, doing evil.

Eric (as Threadbare): That's up for debate depending on who you're talking to.

Eric: Multitool it is now your turn. There's a lot of shit happening below you. You are standing on top of this dome.

AMANDA (as Multitool): And I'm still looking for that loose thread.

Eric:  Yes, you are.

Amanda:  That's an 18.

Eric:  Okay, with an 18 as there, the, there is calamity happening below you. You are still looking for a loose thread in a hay bale and needle in a haystack. You're looking for a loose thread in a, in a needle stack. I don't know, you know how it is. As you were looking around and right in the exact center of this thing, you see a loose thread.

Amanda:  I'm trying to like fuck this up as much monk as possible.

[Julia snickers]

Eric:  Sure.

AMANDA (as Multitool): I would like to tie the thread to my belt.

Eric:  Okay.

Amanda:  And Step of the Wind down the dome, which, if that doubles my speed, that's 100 feet.

Eric:  Here's what I'm gonna say, I love this, this is incredible. You tie it to yourself, and you give it like a little yank to feel like if it's going to unspool. It's very well made. You're going to have to get it going before you can just fully unspool it.

AMANDA (as Multitool): Okay, so then I'll use my action to try and unspool it as much as I can.

Eric:  Yes.

Amanda:  Okay.

Eric:  Please make a strength check. 

[Dice rolls]

Amanda:  Sure. Oh, Eric, what does this little octopus mean?

[Brandon and Eric laughs]

Amanda:  It’s a Nat 20.

Eric:  Okay, here's what's going to happen with that Nat 20. Alright.

Amanda:  Plus one. Plus one. Nat 20 + 1.

Eric:  Nat 20 + 1. You put your hands on this giant yarn, and you're like, "I'm gonna fucking yank this hard as I can. I'm gonna rip it out of the ground." And then, as you're about to pull, you hear like a very loud sound of a motorcycle. Like, someone's driving like a loud, clunky, like Harley Davidson or something, right? And then, like, the engine is incredibly loud, and it seems old and like someone's been working on it for a while. It's like [Motorcycle engine noises]. And then it comes down and you hear, "Hey, you should be careful with that. Don't pull too hard." You look up and Fritz Brightstone has pulled up on a massive chunky motorcycle.

Brandon:  Badass.

Eric (as Fritz): If you yank too hard, it will get hurt. You'll break it.

Amanda (as Multitool): Oh, for sure. Thanks.

Eric:  Yeah.

Amanda (as Multitool): And so I pull it with my normal strength.

Eric:  Yeah. So, with your normal strength with a Nat 20, you're able to do this anyway. So, you start to unspool it here. I will tell you, this yarn if you pull it too hard it will break.

Amanda:  Oh, damn. Okay.

Eric:  So, with a Nat 20 you'll get it, but you need to get between a 12 and a 16 strength check.

Brandon:  Whoa.

Julia:  Okay.

Eric:  Or you'll pull it too hard.

Brandon:  That's cool.

Amanda:  That's awesome. I love that.

Eric:  It's now Threadbare's turn. Threadbare says, "You know, originally, my job was gonna be take us out of here and then I would, like, we keep hitting you from different sides, but like, fuck you guys.” And Threadbare is going to, like, Spider-Man swing again up to Vulcani, and put both hands on Vulcani's shoulders and say, "See you later." And please make a charisma saving throw for me, Julia.

Julia:  Sure. 15. 12+3.

Brandon:  I don't like this bad Spidey.

Amanda:  No, me neither.

Julia:  Can I. No, I was gonna say can I add my fame to that but that doesn’t make any sense.

Eric:  No, no, no.

Brandon:  You're famous to Milo. 

Julia:  Yeah. 

Eric:  Well, you're famous. You're famous to me, emotionally.

Julia:  Thank you.

Eric:  Threadbare pushes you and you will fall backwards, and you are expecting to hit the ground, but you don't hit the ground because he has pulled a rip in the yarn of time and space. And you just keep falling because this spell is called Relocate. And I can put you 90 feet in any unoccupied space. And he puts you 90 feet up in the air.

Brandon:  Oh, shit.

Julia:  Cool.

Eric:  You just, you fall and then you keep falling backwards.

Julia:  Cool.

Eric:  Hell, yeah. We are going back around to Milo. Milo you are stuck in the ground. There is a pile of rubble nearby. Threadbare is standing nearby and Vulcani is gone.

Brandon (as Milo): Do I, has Vulcani reappeared in the air yet?

Eric:  Oh, yeah. Vulcani, you can look up and Vulcani's like--, but 90 feet at air is far away.

Brandon:  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Eric:  You're like, "What is," You're like, "What is that? Is that a night bird?"

Brandon:  Is that a bird? Is it a plane?

Eric:  Is that an owl? A very angry owl?

Brandon (as Milo): So, first thing I'm gonna do is summon Tuna with my Wild Companion because with that I get 3 temporary hit points per level.

Eric:  Great.

Brandon (as Milo): So, I gained 30 temporary hit points and my spirit, my Halo Spirits doubles.

Eric:  Wonderful. Tuna will be, like, curls up next to you and you feel stronger, man.

Brandon (as Milo): I feel so strong and I'm not even gonna bother trying to get out of this ground here. Y'all, should I go after Dr. Morrow?

Amanda: You should try to focus on stabilizing Dr. Morrow if you can.

Brandon:  Okay.

Julia:  Yeah.

Amanda:  Is there like, is there a way that you can help someone with a death save throw?

Brandon (as Milo): Yeah. I can, I can heal her. I just need to get the rocks off her first.

Amanda:  Okay, yeah.

Eric:  Yeah.

Julia: Can Tuna move the rocks and then you do the heal?

Brandon: Tuna is a very tiny, tiny--

Julia: He is magic though, Like, maybe he could, like, phase through the rocks and then pull her out somehow. I don't know. I'm throwing out ideas.

Brandon:  Yeah.

Eric:  You could try. You could try. Dealing with Dr. Morrow is an action. You'd have to heal next round.

Brandon: Right, right. I think I'm going to try to encourage Tuna to try to pull Dr. Morrow out from the rock pile.

Eric:  Cool.

Brandon:  So, they have a strength of -4.

Eric:  Cool.

Brandon:  But I'll give them a help action. See if I can get advantage.

Amanda:  Let's go Tuna.

Eric:  Do your best. Come on.

Julia:  Let's go Tuna. Let's go.

Brandon:  Pretty goddamn good roll. 17 and 15.

Eric:  17 - 4 is 13.

Brandon:  13.

Eric:  Oh, man. Yeah that DC was 13, baby.

Brandon:  Oh, hell yeah.

Julia:  Best cat.

Brandon:  Tuna is the best cat.

Eric:  Tuna phases through the rubble and then pulls Dr. Morrow inch by inch, phasing through the rubble.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  I think that is enough— I don't think Dr. Morrow— like, Tuna is very much a cat. Let's be very clear, but I think it's enough that at least you get, like, a hand. Maybe Dr. Morrow's hand phasing through the rubble.

Brandon:  Mmh-hmm.

Eric:  So, it is close enough for you to touch her and heal her because she is out--

Brandon:  Wonderful.

Eric:  --at the moment.

Brandon (as Milo): Cool. At the entire time, I'm just cheerleading Tuna. Tuna, Tuna he's our cat. He can be where no one can.

Eric:  No one can. No one cat.

Brandon:  No one cat.

Eric:  Alright, I'm gonna roll for Dr. Morrow. It is now Mega Muncher's turn. Mega Muncher is going to--

Julia:  Get fucked is what he's gonna do.

Amanda:  He's gonna say, "You're right. I don't want to do this life of crime. He's gonna pull off blanket nicely to leave and curl up with it.

Julia:  Much like the Italians when they were pulled into hell.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Julia:  He's going to realize, "Oh, shit. I shouldn't be doing this."

Amanda:  Do you think they saw Anubis, and now they have a lot of questions for their priests?

Julia: No, I think they saw what they wanted to see.

Amanda:  That's true.

Julia:  Where they saw a jackal-headed god and did what all Christians do and be like, "That was a demon. I must have gone to hell."

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Okay, yeah. Mega Muncher’s kinda is pissed, right? So, Mega Muncher is going to do a dash action and use that to clear the difficult terrain that is all the hands grabbing onto the big mouth and just bowl forward. And I need everyone in this area which is Kilonova, Threadbare and Dr. Morrow, unfortunately, is going to have to make strength saving throws to get out of the way of this, of the charging mouth. So, this is strength saving throw, Kilonova you do not have disadvantage.

Brandon:  Okay. Eric, I'm gonna use my Phantasma Duct so I can replace my strength with a Wisdom save.

Eric:  Hell yeah.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Use those magic items, my man.

Brandon:  I got 11 + wisdom is 9 so non-nat 20.

Eric:  Non-nat 20.

Brandon:  Yep.

Julia:  Hell, yes.

Eric:  You're gonna take 13 points of damage, which is 26 halved. Dr. Morrow is going to get hit as well and is going to take one death fail. 

[Brandon groans]

Eric:  You take from the damage. So, just, there's this mouth is chomping through. And Threadbare gets chomped in half.

Brandon:  Oh, my god.

Eric:  Yarn is just cut into two different sides and there was--

Julia:  Good.

Eric (as Threadbare):  --just the top half of Threadbare and the bottom half of Threadbare. He's like, "Hey. What's the big idea? Watch where you're going. Get out of the way. And now there are two individual entities of Threadbare. 

[Brandon chuckles]

Julia:  Sorry, is it like, down the middle like through the stomach, or was it like there's one half left and one half that's the right?

Eric:  Hilarious— Julia, 10 D&D points to you.

Julia:  Thanks.

Eric:  There's a left and a right.

[Brandon chuckles]

Eric:  They are also currently prone because they're in two different halves.

Julia:  Good.

Amanda:  Incredible.

Eric:  It is now Vulcani's turn who is 90 feet in the air. You can make your move before you fall.

Julia:  I'm going to bonus action, go into a rage.

Eric:  Hell yeah.

Julia:  Decrease that falling damage. Please.

Eric:  Alright, you take 41 points of falling damage, halved to 20.

Julia:  Okay. I'm still, I'm at like 45 now. So, I'm okay.

Amanda:  Gotta love a barbarian.

Eric:  There you go. Gotta love a barbarian. Lots of falling. You just hit boom, they hit, and hit the ground. Threadbare says, "I told you I'd do it, and I did it." Multitool it is now your turn. So, you have Fritz Brightstone with you helping you from afar.

Amanda (as Multitool): How much should I get to unravel? Like, I want to unravel until there is, like, a hole wide enough for all of us to jump in.

Eric:  That's interesting. You unravel, you pulled on it. So, now you have it going.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  But there is no hole right now.

Amanda (as Multitool): Yeah, I'm going to try to keep unraveling it until there is a hole big enough for us to jump through

Eric:  Sure. Fritz is going to give you advantage. Remember you need a Nat 20, or you need to get between 12 and 16.

Amanda:  Oh, boy. My strength is +1. So, I have to roll between 11 and 15 then.

Eric:  Mmh-hmm. Mmh-hmm.

Amanda:  Okay, fuck.

Eric:  If you pull it too hard, the yarn will snap.

Julia:  Now, in this case, rolling advantage, can Amanda choose the one that works best for her?

Eric:  Correct, correct.

Julia:  Oh, sweet love it.

Eric:  I am not that rude, Julia.

Amanda:  Okay, I rolled a 15, So, +1 is a 16.

[Brandon exclaims]

Eric: Bang! There you go. Yeah, you unravel it enough as Fritz Brightstone is telling you in a very calm and--

Amanda:  Great.

Eric (as Fritz):  --collected voice is, "Pull on it. Pull on it slowly. Don't do it too hard."

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  And you have a person-sized hole in the top of the dome.

Amanda:  I mean, I want to grab someone with my extended arms and just drop them through the hole.

Eric:  Hell yeah. Let's do it.

Amanda:  Is that okay?

Eric:  That's your, that is your movement. So, you can definitely do that as the stretchy monk can do.

Amanda (as Multitool): I'm going to peer my, my head over the side of the dome. "Hey, Vulcani. You want to, want to do parachute jump?"

Julia (as Val): I mean, always and forever. Should I worry about these guys?

Amanda (as Multitool): Kilonova, you got it under control?

Brandon (as Kilonova): I'm cool.

Brandon:  You hear it from under a pile of rocks.

Julia (as Val): Alright, are you gonna be able to handle Dr. Morrow?

Brandon (as Kilonova): Yeah, as long as she'll be able to, like, get up and run. She'll be cool. 

Julia (as Val): Maybe we should wait until Dr. Morrow's conscious, first.

Amanda (as Multitool): Alright, then you stay down there. I'm gonna pop down. When you're ready just make like, make like a bird coo-cooing noise. I'll hear you.

Brandon (as Kilonova): Okay, yeah. Why don't, yeah, that's actually good. I don't want any prepare that and hold it.

Julia:  Yeah.

Amanda (as Multitool): So, then I'm gonna drop through the hole.

Eric:  You're just gonna drop through the hole?

Amanda (as Multitool): Just use my movement to drop to the hole.

Eric:  Hell yes.

Amanda:  Yeah.

Eric:  Wonderful. You dropped through the hole, and it's just, like, you see you are on top of a warehouse. You see that everything is painted a pale purple to mirror the color of the packaging of Vitamin M, even the roof. And you're just on top of the warehouse.

Amanda:  Is there, like, a trap door, is there something I could go through?

Eric:  There is, the yeah. There's, there's, like, skylight windows in this very bougie ass warehouse.

Amanda (as Multitool): Yeah, I'm gonna pop down through the hole, open up a hatch or window, whatever is loose. And with memories of the, the last, the mob fight in my brain. I think I'll crouch outside of it ready to jump through on my next turn.

Eric:  Alright, it is now Threadbare's turn. Threadbare is gonna say, "This isn't the plan at all. We got to, we have to. Let's regroup. We got to re-, re-thread this. I no, this, I do not like this." And Threadbare puts a hand on Mega Muncher and rips a very large hole in the fabric of time and space. And then, like, slaps the mouth on the back of the head and says, "Yeah, let's roll." And they plow, munch through this massive hole and disappear. However, I will say that the yarn hole is still open behind them.

Amanda:  In time and space?

Eric:  In time and space, yeah. You are out of initiative. For everyone, Vulcani, Kilonova what do you want to do?

Brandon (as Kilonova): I'm gonna do two things. First thing, I'm gonna do Healing Spirit and heal Dr. Morrow. 

Eric:  Great.

Julia (as Val): If that has multiple people, I would also like some of that

Brandon (as Kilonova): Yeah, it does. So, basically what happens is Tuna becomes very licky and Tuna goes around licking everyone. And it restores 1 D6 hit points up to 1 + my spell casting modifier number of times, which is--

Eric:  Hell yeah.

Amanda:  Whoa.

Brandon:  --10 times total. So, I can do 10 D6 to-. 

Julia: Wow.

Eric:  Your spell casting modifier is 10?

Brandon:  My modifier is 9.

Eric:  Oh, okay. Got it.

Brandon:  Eric, can I just roll a 10 D6, since we're out of initiative. Can I just roll a 10 D6 and then--. 

Eric:  Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.

Brandon:  Okay, so I have a total of 38 points to get out.

Julia: Heal Dr. Morrow up to full because I imagine she's not very high and then I'll take whatever's left.

Eric:  Sure, that will be 25 hit points.

Julia:  Right.

Brandon:  So, you get 13.

Eric:  She almost died. I just want everyone to know that she literally almost died.

Julia:  Oh, yeah, I know.

Brandon:  Yes.

Eric:  She extremely almost died.

Brandon: And then, for my action, that was a bonus action. For my action, I'm just going to cast Gaseous form and get out of the ground.

Eric:  Love it.

Amanda (as Multitool): Is someone going cuckoo then I'll, I'll pop out and come down.

Julia (as Val):  Cuckoo.

[Brandon Laughs]

Amanda (as Multitool): Alright, I'll stretch my legs to, to rise up out of the the hole in the yarn and make my way down. Is everybody okay? I got, I got through. We can just go back to the roof.

Brandon (as Kilonova): There's also a big hole in time and space over there. Just pointing that out.

Amanda (as Multitool): That seems irresponsible.

Brandon (as Kilonova): Yeah.

Julia (as Val): I feel like it might be a trap, honestly. If he left it open behind him, it feels like a trap.

Brandon (as Kilonova): Yeah, we're here to fight Gutenberg anyway.

Amanda (as Multitool): That's the brief.

Julia (as Val): I did just talk myself out of going into that hole by myself. Just in case anyone's wondering.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  Dr. Morrow is under, is still under a pile of rocks and says, "Hold me back. Hold me back. I'm gonna take it down."

Julia (as Val):  The rocks and literally doing that for us.

Eric (as Dr. Morrow):  Hold me back. You see one, one hand phase through the rock, like, struggling with a fist and like flailing.

Brandon:  I think everyone cinematically looks at Tuna, and see if Tuna wants to go through the portal, and follow.

Eric (as Tuna): No.

Julia (as Val):  Fair enough.

Brandon (as Kilonova): Alright, I think we should go in the warehouse.

Amanda (as Multitool): Yeah, I think we have to answer Gutenberg. So, I guess we'll lift Dr. Morrow out of the rocks. I can stretch everybody up through the hole in the yarn, and Cowabunga.

[Brandon Laughs]

Amanda (as Multitool): And then jump to the window.

Eric:  Nice. And then crash through the window as you jump down to this warehouse. You look around and there is just scattered boxes everywhere. There's like a production line that has been left alone. Like, people ran out in the middle of a work day. And you look over and there's a spotlight lit down on a big oak desk. And Gutenberg has his feet up. Leaning back in a big captain's chair. And he says, "Ah, finally. I thought I was gonna have to, like, check-in and make sure all of you are alright. Let's do this."

[JTP Theme Music]

 

Transcriptionist: John Matthew Sarong

Editor: Krizia Marrie Casil