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21x07 - Stress Tested

Episode transcripts TV show, "Dimension 20". Aired: September 26, 2018 – present.*
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.

21x07 - Stress Tested

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- [Brennan] A list of the
topics, themes and subject matter

featured in this episode

has been included in
the video description.

[dramatic music]
[logo whooshing]

♪ Here we go ♪

♪ T-T-T-Taking over teenage rebellion ♪

♪ It's our time, it's our year ♪

♪ No more fantasizing about it ♪

♪ Everything's about to change ♪

♪ We're all gonna be okay ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey, let's go ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, let's go ♪

[logo swooshing]

- Hello, one and all.

Welcome back to another thrilling episode

of Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year.

I'm your humble Dungeon
Master Brennan Lee Mulligan

with me as always are our Intrepid Heroes.

Say hi, Intrepid Heroes.

- [Players] Hi, Intrepid Heroes.

- [Siobhan] An earthquake!
- Whoa.

- Last we-

A little aftershock on
the earthquake there.

- It was a beautiful vibrato, too.

- Yeah.

- Last we left off, our Intrepid Heroes

threw the rager of the g*dd*mn century.

Maximum Legend.

- Maximum Legend.
- [Ally] Maximum Legend.

- Fabian Aramais Seacaster
with "Kristen Applebees"

in quotation marks-
actually Figueroth Faeth-

landing an incredible shrimp jump, nat 20,

to kick off the campaign announcement

of all campaign announcements,

Candidate Applebees glad-handing.

It's always happy hour

when you're at Applebees. Glad-handing,

and the party was a smashing success.

And we met some new characters as well.

We met-
- f*ck' turncoats.

[all laughing]

- We did meet some turncoats.

- Now, when you say
turncoats, against whom?

Like what cause are they betraying?

- Just like her.
[all laughing]

- Remember the mirror that
Fabian was in love with

at the beginning of the season?

- She was a turncoat.
- Ecaf.

- [Emily] She died.
- She's dead.

- She died.

- We should have a funeral.
[overlapping dialogue]

- Oh, she betrayed us, yes.

- There's so many lies
Fig is living right now.

Gorgug defeated The Night
Yorb, Kristen jumped the ramp

and Ecaf died.
- [Lou] I remember when-

- No, she know she
didn't die, she ran away

'cause she's a freakin' turncoat

and we saw her running
away into the distance.

She's definitely not living
a full life inside my jacket.

- [Brennan] Exactly.
- I would say, like, we thought

these new people were on our side,

so they did technically
turn their coat on us.

- Wait, which new people
are you talking about?

- The people at the party-
- All the hotties.

- ...that were trying to get us-
- The hotties.

- ... to do drugs.
- All these absolute hotties.

- We met two hotties.

We met Oisin.
- We met many hotties.

- [Brennan] We met many hotties.

- [Siobhan] There were so many hotties.

- Max Durden?

Yeah, I guess Max Durden-
- You just like

the last name Durden.
[all laughing]

- Like, that's a hot last name, sorry.

Scumbag mole behavior.

- Yeah.
- That's good.

- He had real line cook energy.

- We met Oisin and Ivy,
as well as Buddy Dawn,

the last three members of the Rat Grinders

who were present at the party.

- [Ally] Honestly, also hot.
- Buddy? Buddy Dawn?

- Get it together.
- Seriously, do you need a cold shower?

- You're too horny.

- [laughing] No, no, no.

I just mean you introduced us to all these

kinda A-lister, the ones in the nice,

new black jerseys that
are like well-funded

and have a German coach.
[Emily laughing]

- [Brennan] I will say-
- [Ally] You know what I mean?

- "The Mighty Ducks 2" reference.

- Yes.
- Name a hotter movie.

I'll wait.
[all laughing]

[Emily clapping]
- I instantly was like,

are you talking about "Pitch Perfect 2?"

- We did some quick investigations.

The yearbook had us discover

that because Buddy had
joined only this last summer,

that there had been a previous member

of the High 5 Heroes,
aka, the Rat Grinders.

One Lucy Frostblade, a Frost Genasi

who passed away in a very slim window

of time last year, in between

whenever grades were submitted

and the end of the school year

'cause of that in memoriam
slip in the yearbook.

We also met a number of other people

that dedicated themselves

to Kristen Applebees' candidacy.

- Got it all right here.
- And we met Sprak LeFevre,

President of the Aguefort Aviation League.

We met Molman Holden-
- Loved him.

- [Brennan] Who was the
President of the Soil Club

and we met Gertie Bladeshield.
- [Siobhan] Loved her.

- [Brennan] Of the Apiarists' Society.

Fabian?
- [Lou] Can't wait.

Can't wait.

Can't wait to go. We're all going.

- [Siobhan] That's gonna be my first roll.

- That's all of our first
roll in downtime, right?

- f*ck my job. f*ck Academics.

- [Lou] We all have to go to Apiary.

- How do you spell that?
- It's not about the honey.

- And have a shirt for it.

"Apiary Club: it's not about the honey."

- It's about helping bees.

- We also found that there
had been some weird goings-on

at the party. You got
down to the basement.

You know Max Durden let you
know as the sun was coming up

after this extraordinary party

that some stuff got knocked
over by Ice Mephits,

which Adaine had summoned in
a very cool popular kid move

from Adaine to keep
everyone's drinks frosty

with some Ice Mephits.

- My party wizard.

- I really had a good time at that party.

- [Brennan] Yeah, party wizard.

- Nothing can go wrong because of it.

- Yeah, nothing can go wrong.

And the day after went and
had a huge delicious meal of

chicken parmesans cooked by Lydia Barkrock

over at Mordred Manor.

- After that bread salad.

- After, oh the weird
breakfast sandwich scramble.

- It's gonna make me too mad.

We kinda have to move on from it.

- Breakfast sandwiches are so good

that when they are ruined-

- [Ally] Exactly.
- It's like extra...

- Yeah, it's heartbreaking.

- So, all of you went
to more Mordred Manor

where you learned about
the pit fiend Bakur,

a ritual that was subverted
back in Lydia Barkrock's

younger days and the loss of her party,

including two of her party
members, Cormyr and Rana.

And the ritual that they all
stopped back in the Red Waste

that led to Lydia putting
the gem into her chest.

She told you that she would try

to track down her old party
members as most of her

heirlooms from them were sentimental,

rather than research-oriented,

but to get you as much
information as possible about

Bakur's ritual back in the day.

With that, that Sunday, all
of you had that nice big meal,

sleep off whatever you need to sleep off

and return to the Aguefort
Adventuring Academy

Monday morning.

A surprise assembly is
called that morning.

And you were all brought
into the auditorium

where Interim Backup Emergency
Principal Grix wheels out

to the podium.

You see Principal Grix
survey the student body.

[dramatic whooshing]

[robotic voice] Students of the

Aguefort Adventuring Academy.

I would like to take this
moment to introduce all of you

to a figure that you may see
around the halls and campus

of the Aguefort Adventuring Academy.

Please give a warm welcome
to law enforcement officer

and agent of the Council of Chosen,

Agent Clark.
[Brennan clapping]

And you see an aarakocra walks out,

sort of eagle aarakocra
walks out for a second

to the podium.
- Is this that guy?

- This is the guy.

- Oh, I Disguise Self as Kristen.

[Ally laughing]

- Gorgug is sitting between two Kristen.

- Do anybody else.
- Anyone.

- Anyone else.

- I rolled the nat 20 on my Perception.

Agent Clark goes, "There you are!"

And I'm gonna roll a Luck check.

One of you pick odds.

One of you pick evens.
[all laughing]

- I'll pick odd.
- f*ck, Fig! Fig!

- This episode's off
to a rocky start, g*ng.

- [Murph] Can I Silvery Barbs?

The Perception check,
can you Silvery Barbs?

- You wanna Silvery Barbs it?

Okay. It's gonna be clear
you're casting a spell.

[Murph groans]
- You got a two.

- Oh, he got a two on the Perception?

- [Siobhan] Yeah.

- Give me a Deception check.

- [Emily] I do that with an
advantage when I'm disguised.

- [Zac] Gotta beat a two.

- Okay, I rolled really poorly but-

- He got a two, and he adds a 10 to that,

so that's a 12.
[Zac gasps]

- I got a 17.

[Brennan chuckling]

On a 3 and a 4, it becomes a 17.

- Oh my God.

- You see that Agent Clark,

this literal eagle-eyed special
agent, looking over a crowd

that has two of the same person in it,

begins to- he takes
the mic off the podium-

- With Gorgug in between.

- I put my huge axe-
- I'm just smiling.

I don't even know you've done it yet.

I'm like...

- And goes, "Disguises.

Pretty fun. Right, g*ng?

Pretty fun to commit fraud, to pretend."

- What is he talking, oh my God.

What the f*ck are you doing?

What are you f*cking doing?
- What are you doing?

- What are you f*cking doing?
- What are you doing?

- To pretend to be someone you're not.

It's all fun and games.

- Change into Fabian.

- Okay.

[Ally grunting]
- Stop. Stop.

[Ally yelling quietly]
Stop.

That was sophomore year.

I'm cool now.

No.
[all laughing].

Stop.

Stop, this is just rude.

This is just rude.

The Ball, do something.

- Your entire section
loses it over this bit.

Honestly, make a Persuasion check.

[all laughing]

- [Ally] Not good.
- [Brennan] Not good?

- [Ally] Oh, maybe, maybe.

It's plus seven. All right, 16.

- So you guys sort of check
out of Agent Clark's speech

to watch Kristen kind of
body roll for a second

until you hear, "All fun and games until

Doppelgangers burn your nest!

[eerie music]

Thank you for your time."

And then you see he hands the mic

over to Principal Grix again.

- That's a lot of
emotional baggage to dump

on some high schoolers.
- [Ally] Wow.

- You'd think some sort
of agent would be able-

- Maybe reel it in.

- Principal Grix says, "As
this injunction has been filed

in between two segments
of an auditorium assembly,

the question and answer
period will be limited to

[beeping] three questions.

- Okay, so are we not
allowed to disguise ourselves

or use Mirror Image or anything anymore?

'Cause like we've specifically
been learning that in school

and it's not against the law.

So, like, why is-

- Did you not hear the middle portion

of Agent Clark's speech?

- I just wanna clarify for
everybody here that maybe didn't.

- [Brennan] Please consult
the Adventurer's Handbook

regarding-
- It's more like this anyway.

It's a lot more like this.
- Authorized usage of disguise

and enchantment spells are-
- Your shoulders need go up.

- The entire section
just starts going, woo!

- I'm sorry.

I don't think we ever received
an Adventurer's Handbook.

We were just told that

chronomancy was the best kind of magic

and then kinda sent on our way.

- I must to the printing room at once.

Copies will be provided at end of day

of the Adventurer's Handbook.

Only authorized uses of
disguise in the service

of a sanctioned adventure will be allowed

on Aguefort campus.

You see that he looks out and says,

"For the final bit of business
today at the assembly,

it has come to the attention
of the student government

that there may have been
some illicit activity

during non-school hours.

You will all now be submitted
to a mandatory drug test."

[scanner whirring]

He scans the entire student body.

- It's a good thing I've
been too busy to do drugs.

- I think we're okay, right?
- Are we all okay?

- All of you guys drank on
Saturday and it's Monday morning.

So you are-
- I didn't drink.

- You didn't drink.

Sorry, what I mean is none
of you guys did anything

that stays in your blood that long.

- [Emily] Yes.
- Right.

Would alcohol count as a drug you think?

- Yes.

If you were to show up to
class drunk, that would be bad.

- Oh, I took a bunch of mushroom
supplements this morning.

Do you think those are gonna show up?

- Ashwagandha?
- Yeah, exactly.

- Okay. Okay. I think you should be good.

- And a lion's mane.
- You're good.

- I love lion's mane.

It's like mushroom brains.

- You see Principal Grix
lingers on Fabian for a second.

[scanner whirring]

- Be still. Be still.
- A hologram comes up

of Terpsichore Skullcleaver saying,

"I've prescribed all of
my students Ashwagandha."

And you see that he-
[Emily laughing]

And you see he says,
"Delinquents detected."

And just straight up
fires a net at Max Durden,

in like the third row.
- Max!

[Brennan grunts]
- Gets grabbed.

And just screams and people
start fleeing the auditorium

as the principal just starts
grabbing people in there.

- Oh my God.
- What?

- Oh my God.

- Should we also?
- We're good, right?

- Let's get outta here.
- Yeah.

- We gotta get outta...

- Can we see if any of the Rat
Grinders are getting netted?

- Yeah.

I wanna see who's getting netted.

- [Lou] Yeah.

- I'm gonna cut 'em out if I like them.

[Ally laughing]

- You see Max Durden looks
surprised and horrified and-

- I'll throw a Fireball at that net.

- Just at the net?

- No, I can't.
- No way.

- Someone, Riz, sh**t the net.

Poor Max Durden.

- Both of those are bad choices.

You have a knife.
- Okay, I'll use...

Yeah, I'll do bonus action.

Mage Hand.
- You don't have to do that.

- You don't even wanna use
a full action on Max Durden?

- No, no, no, no.

So I can use an action to use it.

I wanna do my Arcane Trickster ability

to essentially use my improved Mage Hand.

Its spectral hand is invisible.

I can use thieves tools to pick locks

or disarm traps at range.

Can I use it to try to untie it real quick

so he can run?
- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.

- I'll fall down some steps
over here really loud.

- Woah!

- Go ahead and do it with a Help action.

- Great. Okay.

- Wow, these stairs are so loud.

[stairs banging]

Like that's really dangerous.

Maybe somebody should
be looking into that.

Like, somebody who cares about rules

should care about these stairs.

- Thieves tool check is an 18.

- You come over and are
able to slice him out

as Grix just starts chasing
down other students.

You see Jace, the Vice
Principal, the Sorcery Teacher,

is going, "Oh, whoa, whoa, Principal!"

Running after him,
trying to wave him down.

But he quickly leaves the auditorium

as he just starts capturing students.

As Max looks up and he says, "What?

I didn't, they did nothing in the past.

I've been smoking Gorgenfern forever."

- Yeah, I don't know.
This new guy's weird.

Did you sell us out?
- What?

- You tried to get us to
come down there with you.

- [Emily] Yeah.
- Yeah 'cause it's awesome.

- Okay, that's it?

- Can I do an Insight check
if he's telling the truth?

- [Brennan] Do an Insight check.

- [Lou] I'll also do an Insight check.

- Who else was down there, Max?

- I'm on the ground just rubbing my arm.

- [Lou] Yes.
- I got a 23.

- You got a 23.

Did anyone else get a 23 or higher?

- Ooh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, baby, 28.

- [Zac] I'm screaming in your ear.

- Was anybody else down
there with you when you went?

- He's like, "Oh, well,
like, my other pals.

Like, a couple people were down there.

Ficus was down there.

There were a few other people

that were kicking it down there.

But, like, we- I just, like..."

- What's the name of that dragonborn?

Oh-
- Oisin.

- Was Oisin down there?
- Was Oisin down there?

- Or Ivy?

- We know Ivy wasn't.

- Well, Oisin was not down there.

Ivy was supposed to be down there though.

She was the one who gave me the-

- Okay.
- So you got set up too?

- The fern?
- Yeah, the fern.

I mean, I had some back at
my house, but I didn't bring-

- [Siobhan] Did she tell you?

- I didn't have enough to...

Like, my family, I don't
have enough to like share.

- Did she tell you to share it with us?

- Did she cast a spell on you?

- I mean, in a sense.

- Okay, I start putting the net back on.

- No, no, no!
[all laughing]

He says, "No. I just, like, I don't know!

It was a p-

Like how many parties have I been to

where you go smoke in the basement?"

- I don't know, how many have you?

- Oh, every one of mine.
- [Siobhan] Okay.

- Did you happen to see

Littledoggy Girlcollar?

What's her name? Copperlilly?

- Copperlilly Kittleface?

- Copperlilly Kipperpetal.
- Littledoggy Girlcollar?

- Littledoggy Catlitter, yeah.

- Kipperlilly Copperkettle.

- Oh.
- Copperlilly-

- Kipper.
- Kipperlilly Copperkettle.

- Kipperlilly Copperkettle.

- Oh, Kipperlilly Copperkettle?

Yeah, I'm, like, I'm gonna be
hitting up the food trucks,

like, at lunch for sure.

- [Siobhan] What food trucks?

- Oh!
- [Siobhan] Oh!

- Did she buy everyone lunch?

- Oh, as part of her campaign.

- [Brennan] You look outside.

- Is she a rich kid?
- All along the sidewalk

are food trucks that all
have banners saying like,

"Vote Kipperlilly."

They've got huge campaign
slogans on all of them.

- I better check this out.
[all laughing]

- Gorgug.
- How dare he. None of us...

- They have organic falafel.

We should investigate for sure.

- I mean, I think as a matter of security,

I should probably sample
a bite of every single-

- [Lou] Yeah.
- Sort of burrito fusion.

- You have to be care-

Everyone's trying to trick
us and everything, okay?

- Yeah, you're right.
- I know, I know.

That's why I as a security-
- [Lou] Yeah.

- Have a duty to get stuffed.

- To get stuffed?
- On food.

- S-T-U-F-F-D?
- Yeah.

- Yeah [chuckling].

- All right, Max, we appreciate it.

- Thank you for getting me outta the net.

Am I dead or like... do I still go here?

- I'd just run.
- [All] You gotta just run.

- But I do have to go to this school.

- [Siobhan] Yeah, dude.

- Do you think it's just on
sight next time he sees you,

he's gonna fire another net at you?

- I don't think he's gonna remember.

- I feel like he's got a lot on his plate.

- But maybe like-

- We should unionize.

Like if we all do drugs,
they can't expel all of us.

- That's not a union.
[all laughing]

- I actually think he's on to something.

I like this.

- Fig, you're so close
to getting expelled.

- Yeah.

- [Murph] We got Max.

- Honestly, Fig, yeah, I am worried.

- I'm just saying, like, I'm
not really into the fern stuff

as much as psychedelics.
- Okay.

- Yeah I can go-
- No, no, no!

- My older brother has
mushrooms he grows in a cave

that k*ll you.
- We're like-

- Oh, that is awesome.

- That gave me a great idea.

You need money.
- No, no, no.

Absolutely not.
- Kipperlilly wants to

f*ck us over.

Why don't you ask her for
really expensive drugs?

She'll give them to you thinking
you're gonna get kicked out

and then we just sell 'em.

And then you have enough
money for all your diamonds.

- Kipperlilly won't turn that on us.

- Why?
- What?

- We should have conversations like this,

I feel like, in more private places.

- No one's writing this idea down.

It's so good.

- You know what?

I think I'm gonna keep
the net for deniability.

I'm just gonna walk around with the net.

- [Ally] Yeah, walk around with a net.

- Just be like, it didn't work.

- Just drop and cover yourself in the net.

- Anytime, that's it!

Whenever I see him coming,

I'm just gonna drop and be in the net.

Okay.
- Go, "Oh, you got me."

- He's like, "You're
the f*cking best, man.

I'm voting for you for sure."

- It's me, it's me.
- Vote for Kristen.

- Oh, okay, yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Voting for you for sure.

Absolutely. You got it.
- Definitely. Yeah.

Feel free to eat as much
food outside as you want.

- They have shrimp burritos.

- [laughing] Gorgug!

- You already went out?
- I walked out.

- [Murph] Oh, you turncoat.

- I was just-
- You f*ck' turncoat, man.

- I should get a bite of it
to make sure it's not poison.

- Is that a shrimp taco?
- [Brennan] This is the best...

- Now it's all lopsided.
- No roll necessary,

one of the best shrimp
burritos you've ever had.

- I gotta say, like, look,

she knows that shrimp is our bit, right?

- Oh, definitely moving in
on our shrimp territory.

- That's like our branding, right?

- Were we ever able to check
all of the video footage

at Fabian's house to see if
she was ever at the party?

- Oh, Kipperlilly?

That is something that
you can absolutely do

as a Mystery roll during downtime.

- [Ally] Okay. Okay, cool.
- For sure.

- Do you guys think that I could get away

with just throwing off a
quick Hex on Kipperlilly?

- If you could see her.
- 'Cause I could do-

- I think she's wandering
around invisible.

- I could do an eight hour Hex on Charisma

then she will be rolling with disadvantage

on all of her campaigning.

- As you say, "I'm sure she's invisible,"

you hear on a old sort
of bullhorn outside,

"Thank you, everyone.

Thank you one and all for coming."

And see Kipperlilly on
top of a little platform.

She's got a little sash on that says,

"Presidential candidate."

And there's a little sort
of confetti going around.

You see Mary Ann Skuttle
is out next to her,

just sort of like silently
handing out flyers to people

as they walk over to the food trucks.

- [Emily] That Mary Ann.
- I f*ck' hate her.

- You say the word, I'll hex her.

But I'm also cool to just play this...

- All right, how about
we take the high road

and we all walk out there as a group

and we each get something
to eat and we smile.

And we're just like, "What a
lovely thing they've brought."

With like a little smile
on our face that's like,

"This is kinda trying pretty hard, right?

But I'm gonna enjoy it."

- They go truck. We don't give a f*ck.

- I love that, Gorgug.
- There it is.

- They are good though.

They're really good.
- [Ally] Yeah? Okay.

I can't wait to have one.

If I'm being honest, I skipped breakfast.

I'm so f*cking hungry.

- And they have a cottage
cheese truck as well.

- [gasps] What?
- Oh!

- I'm gonna get in there.

- Does anyone have like a
Detect Magic or something?

Make sure this food isn't like
charming people or something.

- Good idea.

Yeah, I'll cast Detect Magic as a ritual.

- People are after us, everyone!

- You're so smart.

- I think it's a really good
thing that you're thinking.

- Am I still in like a kinda cowboy suit?

I'm still in the Wranglers
and the dress shirt?

[Lou cackling]

- You must simply tell
me what you are wearing.

- Am I?
- How would I know?

I've never had control over that before.

- Brennan has never said
'Wranglers' on this show.

- I'm just saying, Kristen,
if you took that cowboy hat-

- Since when were you wearing Wranglers?

- You took that cowboy hat...
- This happened last episode!

- It did last episode.
- This happened last episode!

- If you took that cowboy
hat, filled it up with salsa,

let people dip.
- Let's do that.

- All right, let's do it.

Let's f*cking do it.

I love it.

All right. All right, guys.

All right, pour the salsa in.

I'm ready.

- Wait, let's first Detect Magic.

- Oh, right, right, right.
- Let's not get charmed.

Let's find out if Gorgug-
- Oh, wait, Gorgug.

You might be charmed.
- Let's find out

if Gorgug is charmed.
- Let's found out.

Can we do this?
- [Siobhan] Yeah.

- Okay, we go outside to all the food

and we each grab a different
thing and can we cast?

- Yeah, and you cast
Detect Magic on everything.

- Yeah.
- You detect faint magic

coming from gear that
Kipperlilly and Mary Ann have,

similar to what you guys have.

You detect magic within the food trucks.

That seems all very minor artificer stuff,

that's like magical chafing dishes

or some like Prestidigitations

that are effectively like
seasonings and stuff like that.

Looking at the food, I don't
think you see anything,

but I think if you are doing Detect Magic,

I'm gonna say give me an
Investigation with advantage

from your Detect Magic.

[dice rolling]

- 14.
- Okay.

I think you're looking
very close at the food,

and you just notice that all of the trucks

have the same graphic design on it,

even though they're all
different businesses,

for the wax paper in the little baskets

or whatever's in the tinfoil.

And as you're looking at
it, it looks like a company.

And on a 14, I think you see the word,

sort of over and over,

the logo of whatever the wax paper is.

It just says, "Okay,"

with a little green check mark in the "O."

- Okay, so that's maybe...
the K stands for Copperkettle?

- I think on that, on a 14,
as you Siobhan say that,

you see that the O and K of okay,

and the faded green check mark in the O,

it's a bubble next to the letter K.

So there's some kind of subliminal-

- Oh, like vote, like
choose on the ballot.

- [Brennan] Mm-hmm.

- Okay. That's fine.

- It's fine.

- It's just subliminal messaging.

- Would you guys back me
up if I go say hi to her

and try to like, kinda-
- Yeah, totally.

- Yeah, shake her hand.
- [Ally] Yeah.

- [Siobhan] Rough her up a little.

- Can go up and get some enchiladas,

and then go say hi to her?

- Yeah, absolutely.

- Can you guys fill my hat with salsa?

- Are we sure we wanna run that bit?

- We don't have to.

Okay. Okay.

- Salsa is such a wet food to eat.

- Oh, no, it's dripping.

- It's so heavy.

It's so heavy.

- [Murph] That is so thick.
- Oh God.

Can you hand me...
- You're so muscular now.

- Can you hand me the enchiladas?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Do I look good?

- You look really good.
- You look really cool.

- The last one's mild.

- Would you hold a big bowl
of chips so she can dip it in?

I think that would be a
power move if she'll do it.

- I'll tilt it toward her.

- We walk up to her.

Hey...

Girlie.

- She has the bullhorn up and she says,

"Hi, Kristen. How are you?"

- Hey, I'm doing great.

This is awesome.

- You're covered in salsa.
- No, no, no.

- That hat's covered in salsa.
- It's a bowl.

It's like kind of a dip.

- I dip one to give her
the idea of how it works.

- So that's how it works, milady.

[salsa sloshing]

- Wow, so random.

So cool, Kristen.

- Thank you.
- You got my vote for sure.

- This is awesome.

How'd you put all this on?

- Oh, this? This is nothing.

This is just, like, I don't know,

it's like a fun little thing.

I mean, I heard that you guys had an

amazing party on Saturday.

- I thought I saw you there.
- You did?

I wasn't able to make it.

I was studying.
- Oh, dang.

- Insight! Insight!
- How come you were studying?

You don't have anything to study.

- Come on!

- You already passed this whole year.

- 21.

- I'm not even gonna say that you think

she's telling the truth.

I think what you see is

a f*cking polished steel orb

of a personality.
- Okay.

- Terrifying.

- Yeah, home studying.

You know, I'm sure you know how it is.

- But you passed, right?
- [Brennan] Hm?

- You don't even have to take classes.

- Studying student government.
- Oh, I see.

'Cause I thought that teacher found you

so you don't have to take any classes.

- Right.

[chip crunching]
[all laughing]

- You see that

she...

She looks at you and says,

"It's nice to be able to focus.

How are things going with your goddess?"

- [scoffs] It's been a lot better.

Did you hear?

She passed.
[all laughing]

I actually meant that seriously.

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Is this going well?

- We're gonna head out.

- We are gonna head out.

I can't move too fast.
- Good contest.

Honest contest.
- I'm trying to run.

- As you walk away, it's
like five seconds later,

and you see that Kipperlilly
now lets you get a little bit

away so she can say, "Your goddess passed?

[echoing] How can you cast spells?"

And the whole campus hears it.

- Passed the test.
- Passed the test

to give me extra spells.

And then I try to Spider-Man web.

- Can I Prestidigitation?
[all laughing]

- I also Prestidigitation.
- I'm gonna cast Pyrotechnics.

And I'm just gonna sh**t
off a sh*t ton of fireworks.

- I'm gonna say right
now that all of you do

whatever you need to do.

I'm gonna say the difficulty
of covering that is a 40.

And you may add all of
your checks together.

- You in a salsa hat.
- I'm gonna cast

Nondetection on Kristen so nobody can tell

that it's not coming from her.

- I cast Jump on...

- On the salsa?

- Okay, Nondetection, Jump,
you're casting Pyrotechnics.

- Pyrotechnics.

- [Emily] I'm casting-

- But do we have any Bardics going around

that we can try to...
- You don't want mine.

I'm gonna cast Fear
because it creates an image

and I'm just gonna
create an image of a huge

nefarious spiderweb.

- So what everyone sees is
Kristen shoots spiderweb

that also produces a elephant-sized spider

that begins to run amuck on the campus

as Kristen ejects from a Jump
spell straight over the school

into another field.
[all laughing]

- Through fireworks.
- Through fireworks.

Everyone starts screaming.
- [Ally] Passed the test

to gimme extra spells!
- Do the Kristen!

- [All] Kristen! Kristen! Kristen!

- Wow, I'm voting for her for sure.

- You've seen the shrimp jump,

and now have you seen the salsa jump?

- I'm so wet, it's burning my face.
- Food trucks peel out

from the f*cking giant spider.

- Get outta here, losers.
[all laughing]

- And with that, what
better note to engage

in our very first downtime.

- We gotta get it together.

- Yeah, I'm so sorry.

- Kipperlilly knows
that your other god died

but didn't know that this one just died.
- God dammit.

- Well, I actually liked that
you played it honest, though.

'Cause she's telling us lies
and you just told the truth.

- [Ally] That's true, but-
- Well, until you didn't.

- Until I lied big time.
But you guys really

covered it up.
- Passed the test.

- Hey, do we need to lock it in?

- Yeah, we lock it in.
- I take off my hat.

You guys, I'm really sorry.

- Let's all never talk to
Kipperlilly ever again.

- Throw this hat away.

- Can I do an Insight check
on when I confronted her

about the teacher finding her

and her not finding the teacher?

- Yeah. Yeah.
- Did she give me any-

Like did I ice through one little barrier?

- Give me an Insight check.
- Okay.

[die rolling]



- Once again, she didn't say
anything in response to it,

which feels like a
confirmation of it to you,

but you didn't see it rattle her.

You didn't see anything...
Like, in other words,

on a 14 you can't get any insight into it.

But fundamentally, I think
maybe Kristen would feel

on some level that if you were to say,

"Hey, that was a bullshit technicality,"

she'd almost be more proud.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, literally if someone were like,

"Hey, the spirit of that rule
is you're supposed to find

the Rogue teacher, not have
the Rogue teacher find you."

She would be like, "A success
against the spirit of the rule

is actually more enticing to me."

- She thinks she gamed it

and that's actually more impressive.

- [Brennan] Yes, precisely.
- Okay, got it. God dammit.

- I wonder if the Rogue
teacher found her to say,

"Hey, grinding is not the way to do this

and you actually have to
study and you're in trouble."

- Or she like put herself in danger

and that's why that person died.

The Rogue teacher had to step in and-
- [Siobhan] Oh, sh*t.

- ...try to save someone-
- Yeah, either way, she sucks.

- Can I say before we
leave school that day,

I wanna go- because I know he's very

conspiracy minded and stuff.
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- I wanna go to Max Durden
and give him the wrapper

and just be like, it's kinda
weird if you look at it.

It says like, "Vote Kipperlilly."

It seems like some kinda
subliminal messaging,

like they're trying to f*ck with us.

- Did you know that advertising
was created by a council

of Enchanters who were trying to-

- Let's focus it in though on this though.

- Dude, why don't we hang out more?

- This kid's still wearing a net, right?

[all laughing]

- Okay, we need the guy-

- He drops to the floor
and he is like, "Dude."

Folds it up, puts it in his mouth.

"I'm on it."

And he sort of crawls away in the net.

- See, this is why I wanted to save him.

He's on our team now.
- I think you're right.

- [Siobhan] Yeah, the dude rules.

- You guys have kinda liked
this kid since he yelled

"Police state" in freshman year.

- Yeah.
- Yep.

- With that, we are going
to jump into our first

bit of downtime here,

as all of you guys have classes to take

and mysteries to solve and stuff to do.

For those watching at home,
this system is pretty simple.

These guys are gonna make
skill checks for all the stuff

that they're trying to do at
school in this first chunk,

this first like month or
so of the school year.

And if they wanna re-roll
those skill checks,

if they come short, all they have to do

[tokens rattling menacingly]

is take a stress token.

So how bad do you wanna succeed?

And do you wanna get a
little bit fried to do so?

Are there any scenes people would do

before they would jump
into this school year?

Things you need to like set
up in order to try to do?

- I just wanna say that I
think Fabian's going to give,

I would like to give my
Bardic Inspirations out to all

the party members that aren't The Ball.

And I think that that looks like just-

- Riz sits there stone-faced.

- I only have f-

You can still come.
- Yeah, yeah. Of course.

Of course.
- You've got it.

- Everyone has to have
a least favorite friend.

It's fine.
- Oh no.

- No, that's not- The Ball,
you're reading into it.

- I know. It's because
I excel academically.

I get it.
- Yes.

- Riz, do you want a
Bardic Inspiration from me?

- I'm okay.
- What?

- No, wait, no, no.
That's not what I meant!

- You have salsa on your shirt.

How did it get there?

- Wait, I will take a Bardic.

Definitely.

- But I think it's just I
have a study hall at my house

that's just- I hire like a local musician

to come play acoustic guitar.
- [Ally] Oh my god.

- And I hire up barista to come.

Yeah, it's Lo-Fi.
- Oh, this is so sick.

This is so sick.

- I just, I rent a bunch
of tables and chairs

and there's now a study
hall at Seacaster Manor

on weeknights.
- [Murph] That's so cool.

- I'm gonna say for our purposes

that your Bardic Inspiration
can only apply to one

of the checks you make during this time.

And even though it's multiple
days, we're gonna kind

of count it like a day.
- Yes.

- [Brennan] Cool.
- Cool.

- Everyone's first check
they make is about the thing

you are prioritizing the most as you begin

your junior year in earnest.

You can select Academics or Popularity.

You could select Money and Part-Time Job

or Extracurriculars.

You could even select Relationships,

if you have any of those
that you wanna foster,

or Mystery if there's any cases

you're trying to run down.

Having an MCAT means your academic rolls

get way, way easier.

Everything after the
first, you get advantage.

Fig and Kristen are in
danger of expulsion.

Failing an Academic
check by more than five

means you are expelled from

the Aguefort Adventuring Academy.

- Oh, what are we trying
to hit with each of these?

- The DCs go up based on your priorities.

- Oh, it's 5 10, 15-

- 15, 20, 25.
- [Ally] Yeah, okay. Got it.

- And succeeding over a certain amount

usually gives you cool
little bells and whistles

and fun stuff.
- Great.

- Other little fun perks to know about.

A special thing happens
if Gorgug hits a nat 20.

We won't say it on camera,
but a special thing happens

if Gorgug hits a nat 20 on Academic roll.

Adaine is rolling her Academic
rolls with disadvantage

unless she can get enough money.

Kristen, I'm afraid you're gonna
have a hard time succeeding

at Cleric classes unless
you can find a source

of spellcasting.

And that's all the big ones there.

What you guys committed
to earlier in the season

was Gorgug committed to
four academic years at once.

First three years of Artificer,

and then also Barbarian,
plus the Owlbears.

Fig had talked about a bunch of stuff,

but the main things seemed to
be different academic classes.

But Fig was also up in the air,

so you can announce that this episode,

whatever you wanna do.

Fabian is the only member
that's gotten their MCAT.

So you're good for Bard
and Fighter classes.

You also have the Owlbears

and I have to imagine you'll be rolling

on the Popularity track.
[Lou chuckling]

And again, you guys
can load up your plate.

You can take three, you can take eight.

You do you.

- Can you say again what
happens when you don't

actually make the roll?

- If you fail the roll, it depends.

Some of them are more
punishing than others.

Failing Money means you
didn't make any money.

Failing Academic could mean expulsion.

Riz has Rogue, tons of extracurriculars,

and weirdly also Popularity

because you're helping with the campaign.

- Got it.
- Kristen has Cleric class,

Popularity and a big extracurricular,

which is like the Church of Cassandra,

which you may choose to do or not do.

Adaine just lost her
money, her part-time job,

but also has Wizard, Oracle, AV Club.

There's a bunch of stuff here.

Does anyone have a strong idea of what

their first priorities are?

- First things first, I
have to speed run Academics.

So I think I gotta get,
like, perfect grades.

So I think that's first.

- Riz, go ahead and gimme
an Investigation roll.

- Okay.

[die rolling]

- Look at the flourish on there.

- Okay, Investigation is really good.

Where'd that go? That's a



- A+ Rogue class. Easy.
- Woo-hoo.

- Literally cannot be stopped.

Riz "The Ball" Gukgak.

Every grade, perfectly flawless.

Who else knows what their DC 5,

their first focus and priority's gonna be?

- I'm gonna go job because up until now

my academics are pretty good.

So I can focus...

- [Brennan] You are not
in danger of expulsion.

- [Siobhan] Exactly.

So, I can have one week
where I dip a little bit.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah.
- If I have to.

- Let's see what the roll is.

- Oh my god, I thought that was a one.

It's not. It's a seven.

But plus four, which is an 11.

- And what skill are you rolling for that?

- Investigation.
- [Brennan] Cool.

- [Murph] You do have a Bardic.

- The DC's five though, right?

Didn't you totally pass
'cause you picked it

for your first one?
- Yes, you did.

So this-
- I did, but I still,

I need to get to "well off"
to not roll with disadvantage

for my Academics.

And "well off" is a 25.

- What did you get?
- [Siobhan] 11.

- Oh, okay. Yeah.

- I mean, I basically can
only get a 25 if I crit

because all of these skills,
I don't have anything good in.

- But you do have Bardic
and if you want to re-roll.

[tokens rattling]

- Well, what about Divination rolls?

I would think, especially
with Investigation.

- I rolled my Divination rolls.

- Oh, okay.
- I used one.

And the other one is also not very good.

- Okay.

- Are you gonna re-roll or are
you gonna add Bardic to that?

- I mean, maybe I will
use my Divination roll.

So that brings me up to a 15.

And then, I'll-
- Can I also give you Bardic?

- I think we're gonna
only allow one Bardic per.

- I'll use my Fabian
Bardic to see if I can-

- It's a d8 now.

- Ooh!

Let's see if I can get
it up to 20 at least.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- Nah.

But thank you anyway.

I appreciate your friendship.

- Hey, you can always come
by and get an espresso.

- [Siobhan] Thank you.
- You made a dollar.

- Adaine, go ahead and roll two d10

and you get that many silver pieces.

- Okay.
- As you do so,

let me ask you. There
are a couple different

job opportunities.

Part-time counseling
at the student center.

There's some other part-time work around.

But you do see there's a job listing

for a server at Basrar's.

- I mean, I'll do that.

If I work at Basrar's can I
get advantage on Popularity?

- Oh.

- We're actually gonna cut
over and see this little scene.

So, it's the first week of school.

Like, I guess you head out.

Basrar's is not too
far from Mordred Manor.

How do you like- what's
going through Adaine's mind

as you walk off to apply
for a job at Basrar's?

- I mean, I feel pretty
good about it because me

and Basrar already have
a great relationship.

I also have that thing of like,

I really enjoy going to Basrar's.

And so I'm like, "So working
there will also be great."

- Yeah.

- So I think I'm going in very optimistic.

- [Brennan] Basrar looks at you and says,

"Adaine, the Elven Ora."
- [Siobhan] Hi!

- "It is wonderful to see you."

- Oh yeah, you don't have to-
you can just call me Adaine.

Actually I was wondering, I
saw you had a part-time job

available and I would really love to...

I just hand over my résumé,
which is Elven Oracle

and then one week of working
at Oodles of Strudel.

- And do you have any references
from Oodles of Strudel?

- Unfortunately, the
entire mall was destroyed

in a cosmic incident.

- No email address or?

- No, unfortunately.

No, and I actually-

I was gonna say I could
give you a reference

for the Elven Oracle, but
I actually don't know.

I guess my sister.

Yeah, I could- yeah, she's an elf.

- Great. I'll give her a call right now.

- Yeah. Great.

- I don't have her phone number.

- Oh. Yeah.

- He punches it in.

You see him over in the corner.

This is Basrar of Basrar's Soda Fountain

calling for an application for a job

for one Adaine Abernant.

Just wanted to hear
any reviews as her work

of the Elven Oracle.

Mm-hmm.

- I start texting Aelwyn.

"What the f*ck are you talking about?

What are you doing?

Don't ruin this for me. I'm so broke."

- You hit Send.

A winky face comes back
and he goes, "Ha ha, a bit.

Yes, very funny.

Good. Yes, yes, yes."

You see he hangs up and says,

"Great, you can start working right away."

- Oh, amazing.

Thank you. Amazing.

- All he has to do is summon ice cream.

So it's an easy gig for him.

It's just you carry it.

He's like, "Some of the ice creams

have gotten very complicated
and are hard to carry."

And there's like huge tureens and sundaes

and boats of stuff.

- I'm so good at carrying things
because I have a Mage Hand.

So I'm doing a regular carry,

but then my Mage Hand is also carrying

three ice creams also.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah.

Who else knows what they're
gonna be rocking up to first?

- Popularity, baby.

The Maximum Legend continues.

- Let's go.

Go ahead and gimme your roll.

- Can I make it Performance?

- You can make it Performance.

[die rolling]

- Okay.

That's a 20.

- A 20.

You have advantage on
the first Charisma check

whenever meeting a new
character at Aguefort.

- Ooh!

- So if you've never met before,

you have advantage on
the first Charisma check.

- Great.
- And additionally,

you may roll one of your other
track checks with advantage

because some kid just helps.

- Hey, you know?
- Damn.

- Someone, like, gives you their homework.

- Hell yeah.
- As Fabian accumulates

popularity at school, what
happens over the course of

the first couple weeks?

- Ah, I mean I think it's just,

it's that scene in the movie
where they walk into the hall

and it's just every person
gets their own little aside.

And it's just like, "Oh, nice new shirt.

You buy it underground?"

- And it's just like-
- What?

- But that's our inside joke.

- A mole is like [giggling].
- Exactly.

I have an inside joke now
with every single person

and I think that Lo-Fi
weeknights at the Seacaster Manor

are just a huge pop, you know?

- Incredible.

Does anyone not get an
invite to Lo-Fi study nights

at Seacaster Manor?

- You know what? No.

Everyone's invited to Lo-Fi
study nights at Seacaster Manor.

Even freshmen.

- Uh, your home is filled with freshmen.

They rarely leave.

- They're a great voting block.

Do you think I could maybe, I stop by?

- Yeah, we do moth nights sometimes.

- [Ally] Are they allowed to vote?

- [Siobhan] It's just
a moth telling stories.

- Yeah.
- All right, cool.

- Yeah, they're allowed to vote.

- They're allowed to vote.

And I think every once
in a while Ivy stops by.

- Oh, you know that roll's
coming down the road.

- [Brennan] Incredible.

Who else is rolling?

- I think I know that I
would be doing Academics.

- Cool.

I think we're gonna burn through all four

of your academic tracks
all at once right now.

- Now, help me out with the math of like,

does it help me to do the
easiest Artificer class

at the five or should I?

- [Brennan] You're gonna do
all three Artificers in a row.

- [Zac] Okay.

- It's basically do you wanna
do all three Artificers first

and Barbarian last or do
you wanna do Barbarian first

and then all three Artificers?

- I think I'll do Artificers first.

- Yeah, you probably want
lower DC for Artificer, right?

- [Zac] Yeah.
- Great.

You can do Arcana, Tinker's
Tools or Investigation.

- I'll do Tinker's Tools.

It's much better than the others.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah. Go for it.

- Okay, so first Artificer class.

[die rolling]

Okay, that's a 21.

- 21.

As the weeks go along, you dive in.

Henry is here, all the
other Artificer students.

You're surrounded by
robots and weird mists,

in encounter suits and stuff like that.

- I'm giddy.

- The freshman stuff, you get an A+.

You put a f*cking satellite in the sky.

You are an accomplished Artificer.

And if you think about,
how many Artificer levels

does Gorgug have?

You have like five, right?
- Now five. Yeah.

- Think about the fact that you ended

freshman year at level eight.

You get it.

So, A+ in freshman Artificing.

- All right. All right.
- [Zac] Okay.

- Let's go round two.

DC jumps up by five. Same check.

- Okay. Okay.

That is a 13.

- Will allow you to pass
sophomore Artificer with a C.

- [Zac] Okay.

- You have a Bardic, right?

- Oh. Oh!

- You also have two more levels of class

you need to just pass.

- I might take a stress token.

- Take a little stress token.

- Do another.

- Is a C okay though?

- C is okay.

C's got degrees.
- Is C okay?

- It's not a D.

It could have been a D.

- You could re-roll and get worse.

- Yeah, that's true.
- Oh god.

My roll is six.

I'll take one stress token.

- Ooh.
[tense bass]

- Gorgug takes our first stress token.

I'm so happy.
[Zac groaning]

- [Ally] We gotta get
you the MCAT, Gorgug.

- We'll resolve what the stress...

Like we're gonna meet all of
you when we come outta downtime

to see how f*cking fried you all are.

So we'll resolve what happens
with those at the end.

Go ahead and re-roll.
[die rolling]

[Emily sighs]

- [Ally] Worse?

- It's a nat 1.

- [Brennan] Nat 1. Okay.

- Now, so what happens if I
take a second stress token?

- That would be the final one
you can take for this roll.

- Okay, I'll do that.

- Cool, stress. Here you go.

- So when you take a stress
token, it obliterates?

- [Brennan] It obliterates
the previous roll.

- Oh it's not advantage.
- Oh boy.

- Okay.

[die rolling]

- Nat 20!
[Siobhan gasps]

- [Brennan] Yes!

Oh my God!
- I'm getting it!

Oh!
- You unlock a f*cking...

We'll have to deal with that.

We'll talk at the break.

But that is f*cking huge.
- Wow!

- A+, nat 20.

Also, Gorgug, you unlock

an academic resource

which will come into
play later this season.

I'll also talk to you about that secretly.

- Whoa!

- And it's up to you
whether you would tell

your classmates or not.
- All right.

- Holy sh*t.

Okay, two stress tokens.

You got it. A+.
- Wow. Yeah, worth it, honestly.

- Gorgug is gonna be f*cking
fried at the end of this.

Now you're gonna do your
junior year Artifice.

- Okay.
- The DC has jumped up by 10.

So just passing, a D is a 15.

Right?
- Okay.

- And then an A would be a 27.

- And I don't get anything from the nat 20

in terms of my roll, right?

- I'll say with a nat 20,

I'll give you advantage on this roll.

You roll this with advantage.

- It doesn't hurt to ask you, you know?

- It doesn't hurt to ask.
- [Emily] Just gotta ask.

- Go for it.
- All right.

Hello, fellow juniors.
[dice rolling]

- Another nat 20.
- Nat 20!

What the f*ck?
- He's an Artificer.

- [Ally] Gorgug! Gorgug!

You're listening to
"The Beats to Study To."

- Yes.
- That girl with her cat.

You're just like, "Yeah."

- I'm so chilled.

- [Lou] I pay her to come by.

- Oh my f*cking god.
- [Lou] She sits in the window.

- School's easy.

- Dude, you're k*lling it.

You're k*lling it.

- Okay, now comes your Barbarian class.

The DC has moved to 20 to pass.

You're gonna roll Athletics for this.

- Okay, can I rage?

- I don't think you can rage
because that's very short term.

- Since I'm at the Barbarian class,

can I give him a Bardic?

- Yes, you can give him a Bardic.

- I still have the one from Fabian.

- [Brennan] Oh, you have
the one from Fabian.

Okay, cool. Cool.

- It might be more stable than mine.

[brief haunting gurgling noise]

- Here we go.

That's right, the
stability of the Bardics.

- The yogurt Bardics.
[die rolling]

- 21.

- For Barbarian, 21 is now a D.

What would just squeak by.
- [Zac] And a d8?

- [Lou] d8.

- What did I say?
- [Brennan] 21.

- It's a 23.

- 23. That would be a C.

- I think I'm okay with the C right now.

- There it is.

- Okay, and we're taking a C in Barbarian.

- Wow.

Two nat 20s in the Artificer.

- [Siobhan] Yeah.
- Gotta get you that MCAT.

- Barbarian.

- Let's get Fig and Kristen,

what you guys are doing
for your first downtime.

- Are we all studying at
"The Beats to Study To?"

- I was gonna say, I think
Riz is like very concerned

about you two getting expelled,

so is sitting at the table with you.

- And I just watched you like
absolutely ice all your tests.

- Yeah.
- I think I'm inspired.

I was really gonna
probably do Campaign first,

but I see Riz just kinda
like staring at me.

He keeps refilling my coffee cup.

I'm like shaking at this point.

Yeah, okay.
- It's fun. Right?

- I think especially since
Copperlilly made it really public

that I don't have a god,

I might do... I don't know
which this would count for,

like, goddess work.

So, not really like Cleric.

- You're not focusing on your classes,

but actually doing the proselytizing.

- Like, can I try to
check in with Cassandra?

Can I say her name and see
if she's responsive anywhere?

- Actually as this chapter is starting,

'cause you can't cast spells,

it's unclear if you would even be able

to complete your Cleric classes.

I think you grab some
office hours with Yolanda,

the Cleric teacher.
- Oh cool.

- Yolanda looks at you
and says, "Ms. Applebees,

it's come to my attention
that you may have experienced

the second deicide of your tenure.

Third?"

- There are a couple
iterations on the Yes.

- Oh, right. Yes, question mark.

There was an addendum to-

- I saw it dead.

It slid out of a hole.
[Lou chuckling]

- [Brennan] Kristen, um-

- Does that mean anything to you?

- Well, it's not good.

It slid out of a hole?

How? Based on what?

What was the context?

- I tell her the whole story.

- She becomes very interested in the voice

that spoke to you.

She's like, "Did you recognize the voice

that was speaking to you?

Was it, like, mocking you
or something like that?"

- Like, "This is the god you deserve."

- The god you deserve.

That's very interesting.

- Why is that interesting?

- Well there's something
that had a personal,

something that had a connection to you

that was strong enough or powerful enough

that it wanted to mock you.

- Do you think it was Cassandra?

I think maybe she was
really angry with the way

that I treated her.

- Could well be.

Kristen, if I'm going to make allowances

for you to continue on

in your Cleric classes

without the ability to

actually, meaningfully cast spells,

where do you feel, if anything,

a connection to the divine right now?

Do you feel any connection
to Cassandra still?

- Yeah, I think that was the ideal...

I think embracing mystery
and unknown is still...

I mean the moon stuff is
also pretty interesting,

but I do think Cassandra
made more sense to me.

Okay, you mentioned something.

So I think Lydia Barkrock
mentioned this or something.

There was some sort of like god of the...

What was her Cleric studying?

Yeah, sorry, I made a note.
- I think they're asking

what the Cleric in that party,

what god the Cleric in that party.

- [Brennan] Oh!

- It was something like
mystery and darkness.

It was something really interesting.

- Oh, Osmir.

A god of magic. Osmir.
- Yes, yes!

Magic and secrets.

- [Brennan] Magic and secrets.
- Yeah.

Is there a way for me to do
like a History check on that?

Like in our library or
with the teacher or...?

- Yeah. Yolanda looks at you and says,

"I think the academic path that probably

makes the most sense to save
you from the academic probation

you are in right now would
be one of the two following.

And honestly, perhaps
a combination of both.

Because you can't participate
in practical classes,

I'm gonna need a lot of extra
theological work from you,

the academic side of being a Cleric;

religious treatises,
research, all of that.

If you wanna look up Osmir,

if you wanna see anything
about that, that you can,

I think that's a very
wise and prudent idea.

And you should focus
on that this semester.

On a practical level, if you
haven't regained your spells

by the end of the fall semester,

I'm gonna have to fail you

no matter how many essays you turn in.

So what I would say is if
Cassandra is truly gone,

something quite strange has happened.

Because as long as you
still believe in her,

she should not be fully gone.

Is there any part of
her sort of remaining?"

- Is there a way that you can-
- You remember those shards

of twilight energy.
- Oh, yeah, yeah!

I show her.

- She casts a Divination spell on them.

Theological essays.

I'm gonna ask for them
biweekly, every two weeks.

- Okay.

- And I think you need
to perform a miracle.

- Hm?

- I think you need to perform a miracle.

Clerics at their best represent

an aspect of divine truth

and their work is to manifest that truth

in the day-to-day lives of people

who can benefit from the
magic imparted by the gods.

What is a miracle that doubt can make?

What is a phenomenon

that mystery can work upon the world?

Cassandra's not here to work through you.

So in all likelihood she needs
you to work on her behalf.

That's my advice.

It's the best I can do.

- Okay.

I start taking a bunch of notes.

Maybe I can kinda combine
this with my campaign.

[Emily laughing]

Just something really public.

I mean, like, if I do a miracle

that's gonna help the campaign.

- I kinda think the
shrimp jump was a miracle.

- I think you're right.

Can I ask her if the shrimp
jump counts as my miracle?

- It's been very good talking
to you Miss Applebees.

Thank you so much. Good day.

- The tarter sauce was on fire.
- [Brennan] Click!

- Was there any way for
her to help me find out

if Cassandra's alive? After I talk to her,

can I find some quiet space
in one of the Cleric rooms

and try to convene with...?
- Yeah.

Yeah, let's make this first check here.

So this is gonna be for sort of like

your religion essentially.
- Yes.

- Go ahead and gimme a Religion check.

[dice rolling]

- That is an 11.
- Okay.

Sitting in the quiet meditation room,

the one where you saw Cassandra
and saw Kalina before.

- I gotta do better than that.

- Kristen digs deep in a way that I think

Kristen sometimes hasn't in the past.

[ominous music]

[ominous music]
[dice rattling]

- Cassandra.
[dice rolling]

Okay, a lot better. A lot better.

That is a 22.

- [gasps] Incredible.

With that, as you begin your fall semester

in the same meditation chamber
where you saw Cassandra

when she brought Kalina back,

you feel yourself drifting,
becoming distracted.

And suddenly, feel eyes on you.

[growls] Shadow.

Something ferocious moving nearby.

Feel yourself becoming distracted,

and suddenly you remember the symbol

from the Forest of the Nightmare King.

Whenever you're in the dark,
I'm here holding your hand

and you're not afraid of the dark.

Cassandra is beyond your reach,

but definitively is not dead.

She cannot grant you spells,

but is so removed from this
place that you are not sure

how to contact her.

But these handful of shards
of the divine essence

you're holding onto,

there's some tether or connection here.

It's just- the line hasn't been cut

but it doesn't have a current right now.

Right?

On that 22, can Kristen think of a time

or moment that doubt or mystery

has actually made her life better?

A moment where there
was some small miracle

that was provided, some benefit to life

made by mystery or doubt?

- I think she spent so much time trapped

and feeling, like, super
wrong that doubt and mystery

actually feel like

a really beautiful escape, and more true.

- The concept of escape hits you.

And for a moment you hear [clicking].

And all of the locks on the windows

and all of the locks on
the doors in this room

just open slightly.

A little bit of divine
magic flows through you.

You couldn't control it
like your old spellcasting,

but when you thought of
escape, you thought of,

yeah, embracing the unknown
gives you the strength

to leave a bad situation.

Escape.
- If there's some way

for me to kind of divinely
put something together,

I don't know, like pine
needles from outside,

something forest-like and kind
of- not really cast a spell,

but just do something kind of in ceremony

to send to Cassandra
that says, "I'm sorry,"

I would love to do something like that.

- Beautiful.

Anyone who wants to, after
one of the Lo-Fi study nights

out in the twilight, there's
a beautiful ceremony.

And on that 22, you do not
lose Craig to Wolfsong.

You see Craig shows up and goes,

"Hey, sorry I've been
a little outta touch.

Work's been crazy."

- Where do you work, Craig?

- Oh, I work at Armor, Zombie and Lich.

- Oh, that's why you're...
- Still?

- You smell so good.

When you walked into the group,

I could just smell the cologne.

- No, it's great.

I know they blast it on you.

They blast it on you.
- Yeah. Okay.

- All right. Let's go, Cassandra.

- Okay.

- And there's a small ritual here.

And I think for you to know on that 22,

what came about was,
like, an actual belief

that Cassandra's presence in
the world does good for people.

And to the degree that
you remembered escape

and were like, "Yeah, I have benefited

from mystery and doubt.

Like, really, concretely..."

That made magic come back.

And I think any instance
that Kristen sees for doubt

to do that will strengthen
that connection.

Awesome. 22. Huge success.

And you took your first stress token.

Fig.

- Okay. I've got a lot of thoughts.

[Ally laughing]

Riz.
- Yeah?

- Do you think that I should offer myself

to be a Paladin of Cassandra?

- A Paladin?

Not a Warlock?

- Because I'm an archdevil of rebellion

and you need doubt to imagine.

You need to basically fling
yourself into the unknown.

That's what rebellion is.
- [Murph] Okay.

Yeah, that sounds- I
mean, that sounds sick.

- Because maybe that would
help bring Cassandra back.

If Cassandra had another believer.

- You could definitely do that.

You could also do Warlock
with that too, right?

- Yeah.

- Do you prefer Paladin?
- I...

- Do you have an interest
in those classes?

'Cause it's just-
- [Ally] [indistinct] Paladin teacher?

- How hot is the Paladin teacher?

- Stop making me make decisions.

- No, no, no, it's not about...

Look, I think we're just
gonna have to put in paperwork

and stuff then, though,
just to make it official.

- Can I bring it up with Kristen?

Kristen, do you think it would
help bring Cassandra back

if she had, like, a champion?

- Sure.

Yeah.
- Okay, this feels too rash.

- [Ally] No, no.
- It's coming to me

in this moment and it feels-
- Wait, no.

I think you have so much to offer.

I mean, look, I love Craig

and he smells so good all of a sudden.

- He smells amazing.

- It's like animal
piss, but in a good way.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like fermented animal piss.

- Over in the corner, you see
Craig's just sort of talking

to Gorgug and says, "I've
never seen a spell."

- Never ever?
[Emily laughing]

At all?
- No, just hasn't come up.

- I kinda position myself over here

to do a study over here.

I kinda can't help you I don't think.

- [Brennan] Oh, okay.

- Kristen, your adult man is being weird.

- I'm feeling like doubt in
the unknown and rebellion,

it's like, rebellion is only strengthened

by having no fear and doubt.

- Well rebellion is the vehicle to get

to doubt from certainty.
- [Emily] Yeah.

- Which is really claustrophobic.

Yeah, I think you're totally right.

- It feels kinda rash though

'cause I literally just thought of this.

- I think we should
run with it full speed.

- What?
- I think you should.

I put my hand out.

I spit in my hand and
put pine needles in it.

- Wait, f*ck. I had a whole other plan.

I had a whole other plan and
this just occurred to me.

- Wait, but what classes
have you been liking?

- So I really like Warlock,
I do wanna continue.

And then I was gonna go
to my Bard teacher and try

and get them to let me
do an independent study.

- For Paladin?
- No.

- No, this Paladin plan just came to me.

That's why it's coming up so roughshod.

- No, like Helio and all that sh*t.

Paladin feels very squeaky clean.

You know what I mean? I think Cassandra

would want a Warlock.
- Not the way I would do it.

- You'd be a nasty a*s Paladin?

Dirty Paladin.

- Dirty Paladin.

- [Ally] I think Warlock could work-

- I'd be a Paladin you can't take home.

- ...if you wanted to still do that.

The Paladin you don't take home to mom.

- Okay. Okay.

I'm just gonna, like, put that on ice.

- Okay.

- [Emily] This feels really rash.

- I mean, thinking about it,

all this stuff with devils and
doing deals and everything,

it's not too-
- I mean, it's another

relationship thing, which is
my- pledging myself to people

is pretty much all I do.

- Maybe you were meant to be a champion.

- It's just too big of a
decision to make right now.

I don't wanna make any decisions.

- Don't run away! Hey, stop!

- I skateboard away.

- Fig, you skateboard away.

I think if you wanted to
talk to any of the teachers,

you feel cool to talk-
- I definitely wanna go

to the Warlock.
- Cool.

I think, like, that night
after the Twilight Ceremony

is when Warlock class is anyway.

So like 30 minutes later you're
skateboarding into school

and Zara says, "Ah, Miss
Faeth, it is good to see you."

- [Emily] Hi.

- Listen, I think I checked the roster.

There's some paperwork
that needs to go through.

What- and I don't want to harsh your vibe.

- Right, right.

- What class on paper are you in?

- I'm just sort of an
off paper kinda person.

- Right, so you're trespassing?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- Okay, here's the deal.

I think I like your class,

so I would like to keep coming.

- [Brennan] All right.
- So if there's a matter

of paperwork, I'm willing to dot some i's

and crossed some t's.

- Perfect, I think this
is a very wise decision.

You are in

Bard classes, I believe.

But as long as you get permission
from your Bard teacher.

You see she produces a contract,

and a little thing of
flame and it's an MCAT.

She signs her name allowing you

to multiclass into her class.

She hands it to you and says,

"The power of the Warlock is
the power of the agreement,

which is the power of the relationship."

Where do you wish to draw your power from?

And where do you feel that
you are drawing it from now?

- I am an archdevil of rebellion

'cause my dad was an
archdevil of rebellion.

Now he actually coaches-

- Your dad is Gorthalax?

- Yeah, Gorthalax is my dad.

- All right.

You see that she says,

"Students, impromptu field trip."

[screaming] And a burning
sigil appears on the ground

and you see a portal opens up,

and you are looking at the Bottomless Pit.

And you see Baby goes, "Oh, Mistress."

- [Emily] Hey, Wretchrot.

Can we have a field trip?

- Ah, yes.

Everyone has to lick me.
[all laughing]

- Well, he is the boss.

- You see Zara says, "Is he the boss?"

- He is the boss I work for.

- And you see she says, "Demon, no-"

Er, says, "Devil." [magical surge]

And abjures Wretchrot.

Wretchrot goes, "Ah, she's k*lling me,"

as he flies away.

And all these Warlock students
sort of, like, gingerly step

through this flaming portal

and you see yourself back
in the Bottomless Pit.

You see there's a bunch of
harried-looking little spine

devils and barbed devils
going like [grunting].

Mistress.

- I had this actually other crazy idea.

Sorry, I'm so all over the place.

I was thinking we could
set up a recording studio.

- A recording studio.

- Are you guys good sound technicians?

- Hold on one second.

They opened a pair of double doors.

It is a sort of grand
cathedral-esque waiting room

with almost like city hall style pews.

It is crammed with souls.

It is just crammed with
damned souls being like,

"Oh thank God."

And you see they come in
and all the devils go,

"We've been waiting to hear
from you for some time.

We're not sure how to process these.

These are all edge cases

and, sort of, we need a
ruling on a lot of them."

- Ruling.

Okay, blanket ruling: I
condemn you all to rock.

- You see that one guy way
in the back goes, "No!"

And a bunch of other people start

looking around and talking.

And you see this one guy who's got like-

- If you're here it's
'cause something f*cked up

happened in your life.

Work it out in a f*cking guitar process

through some nasty distorted amp.

I want you to blow out the
f*cking electricity in here.

- You see Baby re-manifest and goes,

"Ha ha, you heard mistress.

You must turn this room into
the bangingest sound studio

that the Nine Hells have ever seen.

And then lick me."
[all laughing]

- You guys actually don't
have to do that last part.

Yeah.

- You see the guy way
in the back goes, "No!"

- You can. You can.

- And you see that all of these
damned souls begin to toil

in the burning heat.

Then sort of start
constructing, like, booths.

So you see that one of
the barbed devils goes-

with a nasty cat of nine
tails is like, "Get foam!"

[whip cracking]
- No, no, no.

We can't do that.

Can I take his little nine of cat tails

and give him a guitar?

[imitating electric guitar music]

- He's a noodler.

Oh no, he's a noodler.

- This devil just starts
weeping as he's like,

"The music feels so good."

[imitating electric guitar music]

- Okay. Yeah.

I guess this is... it's jam band music.

That'll be some people's Hell.

- So, like, 90 minutes
later you're walking

through the weird hall
of like different armors

'cause you need to make space.

The Bottomless Pit is
being turned into like

multi recording studios.

You see people are like
teleporting around,

different devils are
getting huge mixing boards

made out of cast iron with
glowing ruby sliders on it.

And all of the devils are
running around cackling gleefully

as they just rock at people.

You see that they said, "An endless jam.

A jam that lasts until the
crumbling of the multiverse."

And Zara looks over and says,

"All right, so this is your domain?"

- Yeah, this is my domain.

And I guess it's sort
of like the inherited

figurative throne is where I

imagine it being from.

- All right. There are
many Warlocks like you.

We see devils and dragons
and creatures of this kind

who can produce magic innately.

They can both grant spells

and are the source of their own spells.

You are the archdevil of your own pact.

And there is a great danger
that comes with this.

- Okay.

- There is no agreement we
are more likely to break

than one we have made with ourselves.

- Yeah, I think that's true.

And yet I feel like in doing this right,

so in setting up this,

I'm actually making good
on my commitment to rebel

because otherwise I was just
gonna make another album

with a music label and
that's not rebelling.

So if anything, by doing this,

I think I'm being more truthful
to the spirit of rebellion.

So maybe I am breaking that pact

to make one with myself.

That seems like a lot.

But yeah, I get it.

- I would say this. Bring to the surface

a promise to yourself you will not break.

- Okay.
- You do not need to do this right now.

In fact, it is probably the work

of our time together at school

to design and craft this promise.

But without that promise,

you will abuse your commitments
to yourself. - Yeah.

If I don't phrase it in a specific way,

I'll always find loopholes.

- I agree.

As you finish the conversation,

she puts a hand on your shoulder and says,

"I'm very glad you came to my class.

I think you are very good at this."

- Thank you.
- As she says that,

you hear behind you [raspy breathing].

"Ruin you have brought here."

And you see the Armor of Pride behind you.

- Wretchrot.
- Yes, Mistress?

- I need you to find out
who owns the Pride Armor

or who is the ancestral
owner of the Pride Armor

'cause they're really pissed at me.

- I'm on the case.

Detective Baby.
[Emily laughing]

- The Ball has a partner.

- [Brennan] Incredible.

- Or an archrival.

- So, Fig, you have this
MCAT signed by Zara.

It sounds like Zara would be fine...

Zara follows up with that saying

whether you wanna continue Bard,

whether you wanna go Barbarian,

whether you wanna go Paladin, she is like,

I will support-
- It feels crazy to have

that thought right here.
- [Brennan] No, I love it.

- In this moment, and then do it.

- That's D&D, baby.
- [Ally] That's so tight.

- We're playing the game.
- That's so tight.

- But go ahead and give me either Arcana

or Persuasion or Performance for

this first academic track.

- Okay, we're gonna go Performance.
[die rolling]

A two becomes a 16.

- Two becomes a 16.

You do have the Fabian Bardic.

'Cause a 17's an A+ I'll say.

- Really?

And so it's a d8? Okay.

And this is for Warlock?

Yeah, I wanna nail this.

[die rolling]

That's an eight.
- [Ally] Hell yeah.

- [Brennan] Hell yes.
- So we got on 24.

- Fig, you get back to
Mordred Manor one night

and you see your mom is a little bit teary

and you see Jawbone's got
an arm around her shoulder

and she says, "Did you get
an A+ in Warlock class?"

- Yeah.

Maybe I just was really tired
going to all these day classes

and I'm just doing better
[all laughing]

with the night classes.

- You see, Jawbone says,

"There's a lot of studies about teenagers

and the amount of sleep they need."

- Why do they start school at 7:00 a.m.?

That's crazy.
- I don't know.

I don't know.

That's amazing!

You take your Warlock classes

but you only have one
half of your MCAT signed.

But before we talk to Lucilla Lullaby,

we're gonna go around and
close out some of the other

proposed things you guys were doing.

Gorgug, you have gotten all the way up to

a C in Barbarian classes.

We'll cover more later, but
you're also doing the Owlbears.

If Owlbears would be your next roll,

go ahead and gimme your Owlbears.

- I guess it's the only
roll on the list of things

I have to do.
- Yes.

There's other stuff like
Relationships or Mystery

or other things like that.

- Gorgug's very tunnel
vision on the things

that he literally has to do right now.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- Okay. Okay.

- Athletics DC 25.

Gonna need a 17 or higher.

- That's a six.

What happens if I fail Owlbears?

- Gorgug, pick it up.

Pick it up out there, Gorgug.

- Do you want to burn stress on this

or do you want to take the failure?

- What happens if I fail?

- I will say, if you fail
more than two sections

of downtime at the Owlbears,

you're probably gonna be
asked to step off the team.

- Don't look at me.

- Fabian, I'm pretty
stressed out right now.

Do you need...

Okay, I'll take one more stress token.

- No, Gorgug!

- [Brennan] Number three
for Gorgug Thistlespring.

Here we go.


- It's fine. It's fine.

- [Ally] What does that mean?

- Nine plus eight, 17.

- Well you need a 17 or higher on the die

'cause the DC is 25.

Remember you did four academic tracks.

- Oh.
- I will say this,

there's a certain point in the semester,

but you are taking four years
of Aguefort at the same time.

And you have gotten A's in every-

you've gotten A+'s

in every single Artificer class.

Henry Hopclap at a
certain point in the year,

your gnome professor, you
get like a round of applause

on one of your things.

Cloaca literally goes, "You rule."

- I didn't teach you to say that.
- [squawks]

- People love it.

I suck, you rule!

- You don't have to.

- I think you realize
this is impossible to do

without an MCAT and do the Owlbears.

There's a moment where I think
you give one of your worst

performances in any Owlbears game

versus the Hudol Hellions
'cause you're f*cking exhausted.

- Fabian, I'm-

- Gorgug, what the hell was that?

- I'm a little tapped right now.

And I, I, I think I'll just
have to pick it up next game.

- Yeah, I mean, I get it man.

You're doing a lot, but
we need you out there.

I mean, you're the rage.
- Okay.

- We don't have Ragh anymore,

so we need that.
- Yeah.

Okay, yeah.

I'll just, I'm getting ahead right now

so I can bring the rage.

- Yeah, bring the rage.
- Bring the rage.

- The rage.

- Speaking of Owlbears,
let's go ahead and close out

Fabian's academic stuff.

Remember you have advantage
from being so f*cking popular.

- Yes, I would...

I mean, I'm not sure Mazey could help me

with my roll on Bard classes.

- Oh.

- You wanna roll?

You wanna roll?

Well, let's see if Mazey
offers to help you.

Give me your Bard class roll.

This will be up first.
- Okay.

- DC's a 10. It's your second track.

A+ is 22.

- I add Performance?
- Performance.

Performance or Acrobatics. Yeah.

- If I can add Acrobatics, that's a 22.

- Holy sh*t.

How do you approach Mazey
for help with Bard classes?

- Mazey, I wanted to
apologize for how I kind of

came at you about Twister.

It sounded super sick at the time,

but I think I'd just been
drinking so much bad baby milk

that I just wasn't kind of, like, with it.

And I don't know, I was
wondering if, like, you

and some of the other
Bards would wanna come over

and we could do like a big...

You know, I could get a DJ

and we could get, like, a sound system

and we could do lights and stuff.

Could kinda like build it out, you know?

'Cause you know, we were trying
to make it work with a bunch

of other stuff and what if it
was like, the thing, you know?

Yeah, if that's... I don't...

I mean, it's also okay if
you're just, like, not about it.

- Give me a Persuasion check here.

And if Fabian is being
sincere, roll with advantage.

[dice rolling]

- [Lou] That's a 22.

- Mazey smiles and says,

"Yeah, Twister was probably not the move.

It was not the vibe of the party."

- No, I mean, you and Fig made it work.

- Yeah, remember we did make
it canonically very cool.

- That's true.

- It was like a pro wrestling match.

- [Brennan] It was like
a pro wrestling match.

It was very, very cool.
- Yes.

- You see Mazey smiles and says,

"I don't know, I'll have just
see what my schedule's like,

just 'cause-"
- Hundred percent.

I get it, you know?
- Who all's invited?

- Everyone from class.

Fig would have to be there.

- Is it everyone from Bard
class or are any Fighters?

You know, your multiclass?
- No, no.

I mean, honestly, I was
actually hoping we could

maybe flow together sometime.

I think sometimes I'm pretty
rigid from all the stances

for Fighter class and I
think I'm really trying

to just like, you know.

Like my shoulders, everyone
was making fun of me

at the thing because my
shoulders are so tight

and I'm just trying to relax more.

And so I wouldn't wanna mix, you know?

- Well, I say... Yeah, I mean,

I hate to think about you,
like, trying some of this more,

like, athletic stuff if you're all tight.

Like, we should try to loosen you up.

- Yeah, I'm trying to get loose.

You know, trying to flow.

- Well, listen, get your
best pair of Badidas

and we'll see what that body does.

- [Emily] Oh my God.
- [Lou] Okay, yeah.

Yeah.

I'm honestly gonna need to get a new pair.

I think my old Badidas just don't do it.

So, you better bring
your best pair of Badidas

so we can find out...

your...

dance style.

- A net.
[all laughing]

- I had too much Ashwagandha!

- [Brennan] Principal Grix!
- I had too much Ashwagandha!

- Incredible.

Mazey starts coming over.

You guys start having Bard training.

A+ in Bard classes.

Go ahead and give me your next roll.

This is free advantage 'cause
you have your MCAT signed.

- Okay, great.
- So gimme your roll

for Fighter classes.

DC's 15 and an A will be a 27 or higher.

[die rolling]

- With advantage.
- [Lou] With advantage? Oh thank God.

- Right. That's what the MCAT does.
[die rolling]

- Okay.
- [Siobhan] Nice.

- That's a 32.

- A 30-f*cking-2?

- Well, you know, I'm just
getting so loose now, you know?

- Guys, I absolutely hate
to say it for what it does

to the Bad Kids and to our worldbuilding,

Fabian is undeniably the
most popular kid in school

who is also getting straight A grades.

- You know, it's just...
I've got a lot to live up to.

My papa was just this...
you know, I'm just kind of

carrying on the legacy
or the maximum legacy.

Maximum Legend.

You get it.

- Give me Owlbears too.
- [Lou] Okay.

- DC for this is now-
- DC 20.

- DC 20.

[die rolling]

- That's a 15.

Stress.

That's a 23.
- Okay.

Holding it down as captain.
- Of course.

- But Fabian does take
his first point of stress.

- Worth it.

- Okay, moving on from there.

Adaine.
- Yeah, my Academics.

- Let's do your Academics,
rolling with disadvantage.

- Can Boggy give me the Help
action to help me study?

- This will be your only
familiar Help action

of the tracks you are rolling.

Cool?
- [Siobhan] Yes.

- So he will give it to you here.

Yes.
- Great.

The other question that I have is,

I have the Jacket of Useful Things.

Jacket of Useful Things, I
can pull up to 100 gold pieces

worth of sh*t out of it every day.

- Okay.
- I'm wondering,

after I roll this, if I
can almost set myself up

as like a school black marketeer.

- That would be another job track check.

- Yes.

- Which I would allow you to do.

You would roll that with
advantage because of the jacket,

but it would be a new job check.

- Great, so I'm gonna
do my Academics first.

- [Brennan] Straight roll.
- Straight roll.

- You should start an estate sale.

- And then essentially I just like-

basically I'm the kid that
like, you need an eraser.

You left it at home.

I've got one for you.
- Classic.

- [Siobhan] I'm giving
you a really fair price.

- [Brennan] DC for an A-

- sh*t, I need a Pink Pearl, quick.

- DC is 10.

For an A+, it's 22.

- I get it. I got a 26.

- Woo hoo!
- Ya hoo.

- Ya hoo.
- Incredible.

Do you wanna make a second job check?

- Yes, I would like to
make a second job check.

- Roll with advantage.

DC is at 15.

DC has gone up by 10 from the last time.

And you can add Arcana to this.

- Oh God, it was so close to criting.

- Very rude.

- But I do get a



- 22.
- 22.

- I'll say go ahead and give me two d10

and that's how many gold pieces you get.

You can produce way more goods than that,

but selling stuff requires
a whole process to it.

- Ooh, look at this gorgeous roll.

And then I would like to also,

if we're doing everything at once.

- [Brennan] Yeah.

- Can I get the AV Club to investigate

the broken Cloud Rider?

- [Brennan] Yes, you can.

- The party feels like an AV Club.

- Yes, absolutely.

You want them to look
at the security footage?

- Yeah, I think that
that's- they're really good

at that kinda stuff.
- [Brennan] Cool.

- And I'll help them do that
because I can see invisibility.

So if there's anybody running around.

- This'll be your extracurricular.

Go ahead and give me Investigation.

It's DC 20.
- Great.

[die rolling]

Mm... An eight plus four is 12.

- Here we go.

Here's our stress.

- Somebody's gotta look into
the mystery around here.

[die rolling]

No, that's worse.
[Zac groans]

- Okay. Adaine takes a stress.

The AV Club peels through
it, finds nothing.

There's a million arcane explanations

for why something wouldn't
have been picked up

on a camera.
- Sure.

- Just some Ice Mephits rolled up.

I think even on that low
number you can rule out that...

You can't rule out that
they might've been yours,

but if they were yours, magic
would've taken them over.

You did not command them to do that.

- Great.
- Okay.

Are you rolling anything for
your Elven Oracle duties?

Or are you totally
waving them to the side?

- [Siobhan] Why would I actively do a job

that I don't get paid for right now?

- Anytime you go try
to find Adaine at work,

there is always an ancient
furious elf in a corner booth

being like, "I ordered a smoothie.

I think I deserve to know
whether my line will crumble."

- Yes.
- Wait, really?

- Tip well and leave.

- Here's two silver pieces.

- Tip well and leave.

- Fine, I'll let the future just happen,

I guess, like some as*h*le.

And he walks out of Basrar's.

- I am so sorry.

I'm really trying to get
them to not come here.

- No, it's all right.

You know, they know you work here

and so it's going to be
what it's going to be.

- No, I know, but I just
wanna just do my job

and do a really good job.

- [Brennan] You're doing great.

- I really care about you Basrar

and I care about this place.

- No, it's wonderful.
- It's like family.

I'm fully buying into it.

I'm my own toxic boss at this job.

- I think also as you take a stress token,

go ahead and give me
a Wisdom saving throw.

[die rolling]

- Dirty 20.
- Dirty 20.

You're okay.

Like, you're doing good with your panic.

You're keeping it. But
it does, it sucks for you

as people come and bother you at your job.

- Yes.
- Amazing.

Let's jump over, Kristen, Riz or Fig.

- I've got a million
extracurriculars to roll for.

So how hard do I have to succeed?

'Cause Riz is just trying
to get 'em on the...

He's just showing up.

- So I think we can roll...

If you roll with disadvantage,
I will let you phone it in

for all your extracurriculars.

Does that make sense?
- Great.

- So you can lump all
of them into one track.

- Perfect.

- You're rolling with disadvantage.

You're just trying to
get over the finish line.

How many extracurricular
clubs is Riz involved with

at this point?
- Okay, so Soil Club,

Aviation Club, I think
maybe Equipment Manager

for the Owlbears.

- Equipment Manager for the Owlbears.

- Trying to convince
Gorthalax to let me do that.

I'll do AV Club, various...

I guess just whatever there is.

Any kind of, like, Chess Club,

any kind of athletic
team that will take me.

- [Brennan] Perfect.
- If they won't take me,

I'll be the Equipment Manager.

- So you've already nailed your academics.

A+.

Go ahead and give me a roll for-

- Can I maybe do Persuasion?

Essentially just be
like a pleasant presence

at all of these meetings.

So everyone's like, "Riz, he's all right."

- Great, you're trying to clear a DC 10.

Roll Persuasion with disadvantage.
- Okay.

- You got it.
- [Siobhan] Come on. Come on.

- Come on.
- [Siobhan] Come on.

- Big roll. Big flourish.

- Oh, it's an nat one, which becomes a 10.

- Oh, yeah!

- So I get a 19.
[all laughing]

Soil!

- As all of you guys are
feeling the pressure of cortisol

for the first time,

you see Riz is immune
to this downtime system.

He is just literally-

- Just- I'm sprinting at all times.

I never stop.

- You're, like, running with
your backpack like this.

As soon as the bell rings.
- Huge backpack

running from class to class.

- You're getting like 12
extracurriculars over the line.

You can't get less than a 19

on joining every club in the school.

- I think I also would like to roll...

I wanna roll Mystery, as well.

- [Brennan] Yeah.

- Just 'cause I can't help myself.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- Yeah.

- So in between, as I'm
running from club to club

with a huge backpack-

- That Mystery roll.

Let me know, that might be your last roll

and that's totally okay.
- [Murph] Yeah.

- So let's hold on Mystery for now.

- Great, I'll hold that.
- We'll do all the Mystery

rolls at the end.
- You got it.

- As time passes, like
going throughout the year,

we actually get to the
first week of October,

which happens to be Riz
and Gorgug's birthdays.

You guys have a little celebrashe.

- Can we have like a joint birthday party?
- Yes, of course.

- Oh, okay.
- Of course, were we not?

Unless you wanted to
have your own birthday.

- No, no.
- [Murph] Okay, good.

- No.
- Well, we could do-

- You guys wanna do it at Basrar's?

I get a bonus if I bring
people from school.

- Yeah, can we get like-

- You're that friend who
invites us to your bar

and then charges us full price
for all the shitty drinks

you give us that we didn't order.

- We're 17 having an ice cream party.

Okay.
- Yeah. Yeah.

That could be fun.

- Could be fun.
- [Siobhan] It's like retro.

- This is all exactly what
I wanted to do for my...

[all laughing]

- A joint ice cream party
for your 17th birthday.

- The day you guys are gonna
have your little get together

at Basrar's, I will say,
too, that Popularity checks

have not been rolled.

So really the only one holding
the Applebees campaign down

right now seems to be Fabian.

- Amazing.

- I personally, socially,
I would like to disappear.

- Awesome.

Fig vanishes.
- That's perfect for security.

- Somewhere in downtown
near the federal building,

Agent Clark is just going,

"It's gotten quiet here in town.

It's gotten really quiet here in town."

This is my self insert PC.

I've made my own PC in
the Fantasy High universe.

Just to catch Fig.

- Can I help Kristen with Popularity?

Essentially, I'm cool with my popularity

just being completely tied
to Kristen and just being-

- We'll figure out where that goes

in between Mystery and Popularity,

which you wanna roll first.

But on the day that
you guys are gonna have

your little Basrar's
birthday, you get a call.

Gorbag and Roz, your biological
parents send you a little

certificate that is for a
bunch of mechanical gear.

It's like a gift card for Artificer stuff.

- [Zac] Wow.

- They say that they've been
talking to Digby and Wilma

and you're doing so great.

They say that they're gonna come into town

to help celebrate your birthday.

And it's very, very sweet.

And as you're having this nice morning,

Henry takes you aside and says,

"I just wanna say, Gorgug,

I am blown away by how much
you are applying yourself

and you should be so proud.

You have not been set
up for success, frankly,

in the bureaucracy of this school.

And it's really incredible.

You have a gift for this.

And I know that you're
trying to figure out-

There are parts of what you're pursuing

that kind of don't click,

but I just want you to know

that I've never seen someone
work as hard as you are working

and not figure it out."

- Wow. Thank you.

Yeah, I feel like, I don't know,

I feel like I'm just learning a lot

and you know, good class, right?

- You see that Unit, one of
your classmates goes [beeping].

And claps.

Henry's like, "Right on, Unit.

All right."

You go from there kind of
like- it's your birthday,

feeling on top of the world.

You get to Barbarian class and
there's basically this like,

Porter's got this giant stone plinth

in the middle of the room.

Fig you're here for this class as well.

This is the same day that you
need to figure out what...

You've been doing Warlock stuff.

You've gotta figure out something with

how you're actually gonna structure your

classes for the semester.

- Yeah.

- I think actually, yeah,
as you're heading there,

you finally have the conversation.

You see Lucilla Lullaby walking
past and says, "Figueroth."

- Okay. Okay.

So, Fig has definitely
been looking at her bass,

dreaming of it glowing
with the twilight of doubt,

being deputized by her president.

But she also knows that she's
on security detail right now.

And so she probably needs to be

a Bard for a little bit longer.

So I think I wanna go to Lucilla.

- Okay.

- Hey, I was wondering if
you would be amenable to,

you know us Bards, jack of
all trades, master of none.

I was wondering if you would be amenable

to an independent study.

- Okay, tell me more.

- Okay, I used to be,
like, a Whispers Bard

and I'm willing to do that
again if you let me kinda

do an independent study
that's sort of just like

basically infiltrating,

information gathering,

using deception, and hugging the shadows

to find out what I need.

- Okay.

So you- all right.

You wanna hug the shadows?

- Yeah.

I can even be giving you
updates about what I'm doing.

I basically have a mark,

and I wanna find out
everything I can about him.

- Okay.
- And I want to get in here.

- Great.

Well, that sounds amazing.

And it's like there's an ask in here.

- Oh, yeah, can I do that
as an independent study

instead of coming to class?

[Emily laughing]

- Um...

- Oh God. Oh f*ck.

Here's the thing, Lucilla.

I don't think I'm an artist, okay?

When I hear other people
talk about being artists,

I don't think I'm an artist.

I think I'm just a really good friend.

I think that's my whole f*cking thing.

- Okay.

Can I take a second to
process what I'm feeling?

- Yeah, absolutely.

[Brennan singing]

- And she starts singing
in this insane chant

and just begins to sort of float away

out through a window into the sky.

- f*ck it, I'll come to class.

I'll come to class

- As she sort of floats away weeping,

you meet Gorgug up at Barbarian class

with this still unsigned MCAT with you.

And as you're sort of sitting
down getting ready for class,

you see Porter setting up
this giant stone plinth

and you see Porter sort
of gazes over at you.

He goes, [grunting, clearing throat].

- Can I ask, Fig, what do
you think the move is here

with the MCAT situation?

- Oh, with Porter?

- Yeah, I feel like I step in
it every time I talk to him.

- Porter.

- Yeah, what's up?

- Will you sign my MCAT?

And I hold up the one
from the Warlock class,

and then I wanna try at the last second

do it so that it's
actually, I wanna fold it

so my MCAT is on top of Gorgug's.

- You see Porter-

- You want me in this class, right?

- He looks over at Gorgug and says...

I'll say, let's do it by the dice.

Give me a Sleight of Hand check.

- Okay. Come on.

- His Perception.
- Ooh. Okay.

- You're gonna have to beat a 23.

- I got an eight.
- You got an eight.

Porter looks at you holding
that there and goes,

- Sorry.
- "Trying to get me to sign

Thistlespring's little waiver here, huh?"

- Yeah, I think you're
being weird about it.

[all laughing]

- [Zac] Wow.
- You do?

- Yeah, I do.
- Uh, Fig...

- I don't get you.

- You get one of the two.
You get the sneaky sign

or you get the "you're
being weird about it."

I don't think you get
them after each other.

- [Brennan] You see...

- Caught red handed.

I think you're being kinda weird.
- You're being weird.

- Give me a Intimidation
or Persuasion check here.

- I think I strum my guitar.

Shatter the windows.
[breaking glass]

[die rolling]

I get a...



- Whoa!

- Porter looks up.

He's covered in glass

that's sticking out of his skin.

He hasn't flinched.

- Oh my God.

- He looks in and goes,
"Think I'm being weird, huh?"

- Yeah, I've always
thought you were weird.

Ever since day one, I've had eyes on you.

- I can tell. I've never understood.

You've had it out for
me since the first...

- Yeah and I still do and I always will.

I shatter any remaining windows.

- All the glass is already shattered,

but you just reshatter it smaller,

like making sand in the room.

Porter holds a hand out for your MCAT,

for the Warlock one.

"Can I see that?"

- Oh my God.

- Don't want this, Gorgug.

I'm so f*cked up.

- Porter takes it, takes out a pen,

signs it in the other
teacher's mark next to Zara's.

And you see that the form only has two

teacher signature spots on it.

Signs it, writes an
addendum, leaves a note,

does some little bureaucratic thing.

Goes, "I've heard a rumor.

Did you tell someone on
your spring break adventure

to 'choke on grapes, b*tch?'"

- Did I?
- I think so.

- Absolutely. Absolutely.
- I did.

- Porter looks and says,
"I've marked you as present

for every class that you've been auditing

for Barbarian classes.

You've attended so many and
your in-class contributions

to discussion have been such
a boon to the other students

that on extra credit alone,
I'm going to sign this

and I'm gonna go to Principal Grix

and say there was a miscommunication,

Figueroth Faeth has been a
Barbarian this entire time."

- [whispering desperately]
I don't want to.

- He smacks the MCAT outta your hand.

"You've never told anybody
to choke on anything!"

- You're weird.

- Do you believe that?
- Mm-mmm.

- No, you don't.

- Yeah, I think you're weird.

- Yeah?
- I can't even rage.

- Yes you can.

Yes you can.
- You're f*cking right I can.

[Ally laughing]

Gorgug.
- What?

- I'm so f*cked.

- Fig, I don't know what's
f*cking happening at all.

- [Ally] Barbarian, Bard, Warlock.

- Are you doing this class too?

Wait, what happened?

I thought we were just
gonna get my form signed.

- I just made the Bard
cry, the Bard teacher cry.

And I tried to get your form signed.

Now I got my form signed.

- What the f*ck is happening?

- You see Porter looks and says,

"This is a C- student."

[Lou sighs]

You bring your Barbarian class

up to an A+

and I'll consider signing that form.

- Okay. Yeah.

- He looks back at you and says,

"As long as you keep
auditing, you can have this."

- Okay.

- Must be nice...

- I want it for you.

- I know, I just... he is really weird.

- He's so weird.

- Why can't I tell him he's weird?

Why can't I tell him that?

- Just flex at him.

- [Brennan] Incredible.
- [whispering] You're weird.

- [Brennan] Okay.
[all laughing]

- So quiet at the back of the class.

- You're weird.

- Whispering in his pencil case.

- Fig, you get your MCAT signed,

which basically allows you-

- Fig's having a yogurt year.

- You feel your stomach
gurgle a little bit as you-

- [Siobhan] She's in her yogurt era.

- [Ally] Yeah.

- Academically, you have permission,

basically you can roll
any other Academic rolls

with advantage because you have
this piece of paper signed.

- Oh, okay.
- Right?

So it doesn't have to be Barbarian.

You can just keep showing up here.

- Okay, I'll take that.

I will take that.

- Basically looking at it,
actually what Porter did

was make your life easier.

- Really?
- Like make your life way easier

because you can do all these other

multiclass things with advantage.

Any other classes you wanna go
to, you roll with advantage.

He basically has like
lessened your workload,

that you can jump right into junior year

for any other class you're interested in.
- Okay, great.

I thought I absolutely f*cked myself

in trying to help Gorgug.
- No, no, no, no.

So you've already rolled
for Warlock, gotten the A+.

Is there any other class
that Fig actually wants

to apply herself to while she's here?

- So I kind of wanted
to go in on the Mystery,

is the thing.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- But I am like really thinking about,

I do kinda wanna just see what
the Paladin class is like.

f*ck me.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah.

Go ahead and give me a Religion check

with advantage, because you're
trying out Paladin classes.

[die rolling]

[die rolling]

- That is a 19 on the die becomes a 22.

- You head over to Paladin
class where you see

that there is a figure in a sort of like

deep v-neck white shirt,
like little silken scarf,

this huge double-handed
sword on their back.

They have a little bit of
like a five o'clock shadow.

They look sort of- very
like debonair and urbane.

You're like a couple
weeks into the school year

and you see that written up
on the chalkboard it says,

"Halo St. Croix."

And you see it says-
- C-R-O-I-X?

- C-R-O-I-X.

St. Croix if you prefer and
says, "Well, well, well.

Well into the month of October

and already a new face emerges.

A challenger appears on yon
hill astride her destrier.

Announce thyself, brave knight.

- Fig is really...

Fig is really feeling the
power of doubt right now.

Cassandra, you are
strongly with me right now.

Hi, I am Figueroth Faeth.

I am the archdevil of rebellion

and potential devotee of doubt.

- Well, speakest thou now thy sacred vows

that we might learn before e'er long.

What drives within the
heart of this fiend?

- Okay, my first thought
for my sacred vows would be

I wield the power of doubt
to shatter all structures.

And then I cast Shatter
again on the windows.

- Ha ha! Counterspell.

You begin taking these classes. On an A+,

Halo is a bit of a doofus.

- Yeah.
- But you begin-

- It only strengthens my doubt.

- It only strengthens your doubt.

- Great.

- On that very high roll for
that first Paladin class,

you also see in terms
of independent studies,

you get a letter from Lucilla apologizing

for her displays.
- Feel so bad.

She has nothing to apologize for.

I'm a mess.

- Saying if you ever wanna
come back to Bard class,

that the door is open.

You get a letter from
Principal Grix affirming

that you are a multiclass
Barbarian/Warlock,

and you are attending Paladin classes.

As you move into Paladin classes,

there are some conflicts.

If you don't jive with Halo,

there are actually some
teachers at the school

that are multiclass like you.

So you have multiclass advisors.

And you actually see that Porter is one

of the multiclass advisors for Paladin.

- You've gotta be f*cking kidding me.

- I kick in the door.
[Ally laughing]

- Porter goes, "Huh? What's up?"

- Nothing, I just wanted to say, hey.

- I'm weird?
[Emily laughing]

So you trying Paladin classes out?

- Yeah, I'm trying it out because

I've been an artist for a while,

but what I really wanna be
is a tough German Shepherd

just monitoring the perimeter.

And that just doesn't feel
like an artist does it?

- No, I don't think so.

Expression is something primal.

- Yeah.

- You wanna defend your friends.

- Yeah.

- You wanna be that German Shepherd, yeah?
- Yeah.

- The difference between an oath and rage

is about that thin.

I think what motivates
us to make a promise,

and this is what Zara is talking about.

I spoke with her a little bit, right?

Agreements, promises, oaths.

- Yeah, that's what I like.

- Look, if you wanna take
classes with Halo, you can.

But Halo, it's gonna be all
about questing and gallivanting.

Do you wanna be a German Shepherd?

- Yeah.

I wanna be the best security detail

my president has ever seen.

- Well, the best defense
is a good offense.

And you see here, Porter
takes a sword off the armory

and Divine Smite slashes
through the stone pillar

and obliterates it.

And the top of the pillar crashes into

the bleachers and sticks out.

- That's really f*cking cool.

- It's time to stop f*cking around

and get in shape, Miss Faeth.

- Okay, sir.

- And he starts to tutor you

in the multiclass Paladin angle.

And he really focuses on rage.

Rage as like a principle
of devotion to doubt,

of teenage rebellion.

It's all of a piece.

The swearing yourself to the toppling

of falsehoods and bad structures.

- Kristen, I think down the line,

I'm gonna need you to knight me.

- I would love to.

Can I wear the salsa hat?

- What do you think you're
gonna knight me with?

- Exactly.

Chips.
- On each shoulder.

- Absolutely f*cking incredible.

Kristen. We gotta figure...

So, you rolled for your church.

We gotta roll for Cleric stuff, as well.

- Oh, the biweekly essays.

Do I have to start that now
or do I start that next...?

- You have to start that now.

So it's happening in
the same chunk of time.

- Can I do that later?

- Can I do that later?

This just gonna be a Religion check,

which you roll with advantage.

But I'm gonna say that
there's disadvantage

'cause you're not connected
to a divinity right now.

So you're just gonna roll straight.

- Okay.

And what's the DC on this?

Is this my second slot?

- This is now DC 10.

So to get an A it's not a 17, it's a 22.

- Okay and what if I did
Popularity first for the campaign?

- [Brennan] Go for it.

- Oh my God.
- Go for it.

You wanna do Popularity for the campaign?

Persuasion DC 10.

[die rolling]

- 12.

- 12? Cool.

You're hitting the bricks,
you're shaking hands.

It's not an outrageous success, but-

- Oh, I still have Bardic.

I haven't used yours.
- Don't throw it on there.

- [Siobhan] Don't throw it on-
- Don't throw it on.

- No?
- Can I take a stress

for Kristen?

Just like going around
trying to make Kristen cool?

- Yeah, you can allow for a re-roll here.

So your campaign manager's just gonna

take a stress token to give you.

Riz is the only character allowed to

take stress for other people.

Okay?

There we go.

- Thank you, Riz.
[die rolling]

God dammit, it's worse.

- [Brennan] Okay.

- I'll take another one please.

- No, no!
- We got this.

- We got this.

Okay, there you go, Riz.

- We got it.
[die rolling]

- Come on, come on, come on.

Okay. Okay.

And that's for Persuasion?

- [Brennan] Persuasion.
- 21.

- 21, you beat it by 10.

You have advantage on
Charisma checks for any kid

that you're meeting at the
school for the first time.

And you have advantage
on any other track check

you roll in this period because
your popularity helps you.

People start supporting you.

They know that Fabian's on the team.

Honestly, all of this is Riz.

It's all the weird clubs.
- Yeah, it's absolutely Riz.

- The clubs are coming
through to help you.

It's all Riz.
- The freshmen can vote.

We don't need cool kids.

We need a lot of dorks.

- Are you okay?
- No, of course!

I'm great!

- You're f*cking beltway guru.

- Yeah.

You're listening to all these podcasts.
- Soil!

It's all about the Soil Club.

- I'm on Crooked Media every day.

Great, so that's Popularity for you.

Now go ahead.

So, Kristen, against all odds,

the godless Kristen Applebees...

Kristen and Fabian vault to the top

of popularity in the school, right?

- That's right.

- [Brennan] Let's go baby. Let's go.
- Yes.

- Kristen, go ahead and give me...

You may roll...

This, I will allow it to
cancel the disadvantage

'cause of that Popularity check.

Go ahead and roll Religion with advantage.

The DC for this is 15 gets you a D.
- I get a plus six.

- Rolling with advantage.

- Okay, 12.

So that's an 18.

- 18, so that means you get a C.

- Oh and I can Bardic for this.

- You can Bardic for that.
- Okay, okay, okay.

It's a two.

Okay, so 20.

- So that's to 20 from 15.

Okay, Kristen, you get a C in Religion.

Give me one more Religion check,

actually, just normal.

- Okay.
- Without a god, you know?

- It's a nat one.

- Oh, you roll with advantage
'cause of your book.

- Thank f*cking God.
[Emily laughing]

Okay, that's a 16.

- What is your first paper about?

- I start trying to look up...

Osmir.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- The god of magic and secrets.

- [Brennan] Yeah.

- But first I turn in a
completely empty document

and I go, "What?

The attachment didn't show up as anything?

Are you serious?

Oh, I will definitely check on that."

And then, quickly, I start typing stuff up

and I try to research
Osmir like the most I can.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah.

- It's a C.

- Osmir is a god that is

not broadly worshiped,

but whose worship exists everywhere.

And it's an interesting thing
for you to look at religions

that survive not on this like-

they're not evangelistic.

It's a religion that has
a deep and proud tradition

that's not looking to bring
a lot of other converts.

And you are interested to see,
very different from Helio.

Helio's like, "Get the tent bigger.

Get more bodies in here."

But you realize- your first
paper is about how the fact

that worship is not just measured

in numbers of adherence,

but also in the strength
and devotion of followers.

Osmir has, like, abbeys and
monasteries throughout Spyre

where people live their
entire life in devotion

to, like, peering through the mysteries.

It's sort of that thing of like,

"Well I don't have 100
people praying once a week,

but I do have one person
praying every day."

And this idea of people
that are very devoted

and it just, I think, lets
you breathe a little bit more

easily in the idea that
there's more stuff open here.

- Doesn't all have to be Moonsong.
- It doesn't all have to-

yes, it doesn't have to always
be the way Tracker's doing it.

It doesn't all have to be the way

that Buddy Dawn is doing it.

There's lots of different traditions

and practices that seem to thrive.

Your vision of thriving
is such like a garden

that grows explosively in all directions

and is flowering and dah, dah, dah, dah.

But there's thriving like
a tall and ancient tree.

There's thriving like
grass that's, like, omni-

that is small and humble, but very...

Like, there's a lot of
different ways for this to look.

Right?

Let's do any Mystery rolls

that we have here at the very end.

- [Emily] I have a
Mystery thing I wanna do.

- Cool.

- I basically want to- if
we can't do it on campus,

I don't have to do it on campus.

I can do it around the town.

I basically want to
disguise myself as various

eligible high schoolers

and probe about Ruben's dating past.

- Oh-h*!

Go ahead and gimme a Mystery roll.

This is your third roll, so the DC's 15,

but successes passed a certain point

will get you even more.

You can give me Perception,
Investigation, or Insight.

- All right, I think the
goal is that I was gonna try

and use my Actor feat,

but okay, I'll do that.

- I'll let you use the
Actor feat to get advantage,

but not to use your Performance skill.

- [Emily] Okay.
- Cool?

[die rolling]

[Emily scoffs]
You could take a stress.

- I'll take a stress.

I'm gonna take a stress.

- You can take a stress.
- [Emily] I want this.

- Ah, a stress pusher.

- You could take a stress.

- That's 19.

- That definitely passes.
You ask about Ruben's-

- And like, I wanna go
through all of his lyrics

and basically get a profile of

what he might be attracted to.

- You talk to a student.

There's a Triton student at Aguefort

whose name is Lashra.

And you see she says like,

"Oh, Ruben's dated a lot of people.

Like, he's in everyone's DMs.

He's, like, constantly talking.

I haven't heard anything
that's, like, that gross

beyond, like, what you
would expect for someone

who, like, got famous quickly."

- Yeah, no, I meant more
like, does he have a type?

- I would say anyone who
thinks he's cool, straight up.

I haven't seen like a strong type.

Oh, he talked a lot about this girl

at the beginning of the year, Wanda.

- Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I heard she's
super hot and mysterious.

- Yeah.

Oh, he asked me if I knew if Wanda

was gonna be at Frosty Fair.

- Okay.

That's crazy. I'm so jealous of Wanda.

- Yeah, he was like, "I hope she's there."

'Cause he's- I dunno if
you heard, he's headlining.

- Is he?

- Yeah, he's headlining at Frosty Fair.

- Interesting.
- Mm-hmm.

- Cool, so I wanna use
that information to...

I took the Dream spell and
I wanna, just every night,

give him dreams of Wanda.
[Ally laughing]

Just dreams of Wanda
saying how good he is.

- [Ally] You're invading
a teenage boy's dreams.

Inserting your alter-ego.

- [Emily] My alter-ego.
- My alter-ego.

- Alter-emo.
- Alter-emo!

- I think it's like-
who did "Tree of Life?"

Like, Terrence Malick, kind of flashbacky.

Her in fields.
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- Her showing him her poetry tattoos,

her putting hair behind her ear.

It's just, like, everything
is montages of that.

- So you're incepting
Ruben with Wanda Childa.

- Like a buildup of this
crush on Wanda Childa.

- Incredible.

You successfully do that.

- Why is she always under a white sheet?

- It's always like, yeah.

- It's always over her shoulder,

like that Instagram travel.
[all laughing]

- Your mouth is talking,

but it's just the sound of waves crashing.

- She's on the end of a pier?

- Yeah.

It moves in and out.
- Are there piers?

Aren't we in landlocked city?

- Just like, her in the passenger seat

doing this in the window.

- Oh my God.
- Incredible.

Like a week after that, a
single hits the thing of

"Not All Who Wanda Are Lost."
- [Ally] Oh my God.

- Incredible.

Anyone else rolling for Mystery?

- Oh, I would like to do a half Mystery,

half Relationship roll.

- Okay.

- I would like to reach out to Ivy.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- [Siobhan] Cool.

- To hang out at school.

- Okay.

This is a DC 20,

- I think I'm at 25.

- Oh, you're at 25?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is a DC 25 Persuasion check.

- Okay.
[die rolling]

Oh, I missed, but that's not gonna do it.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- I'll take stress.

- [gasps] Oh baby.

- This is the only way I
can help solve a mystery.

All right?

That's not gonna do it.
- Wait, no!

- [Siobhan] Don't you get advantage?

- You get advantage on all your rolls

because of that really good Charisma.

- No, I think you used your advantage on-

- Bard to hang out with Mazey.

- To hang out with Mazey

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I'll take one more stress.

- It's your last one you
can take for this check.

[die rolling]

- Nah.

- You go up to Ivy at school.

How does Fabian approach Ivy?

- [Lou] Hey.

What's going on?

- What's that?

- What's going on?

- I don't know, you tell me.

- You know, I just...

I thought we started something

the other night and it
would be cool to get

to know you better.

You know, me and my
friends have kinda been

hitting the bricks metaphorically.

You know, we're kind of on the outs,

especially me and Fig, you know?

We're having a lot of
rubbers meeting the road,

if you know what I'm saying.

So, you know, I don't know,

I'm just trying to broaden
my horizons, socially.

- I would say, it seems
like you are trying

to broaden your horizons.

Yeah?
- It seems that way. Yeah.

Is it the vibes I'm putting off?

- Well, I hear that you get a lot of

those little dancer friends of yours

to hang out and stretch and
feel your feelings together

all in the room.

- Yeah.

It's, uh, it's like,
uh... It's like, uh...

It's like another way of like...

I mean, it's a form of
battle within oneself.

It's honestly incredibly
beautiful and important.

But, you know, I'm always, you know.

I stay, you know?

So I was just-
- You stay what?

Stabbing?
- Stab. Yes.

You and me finish each other's sentences.

Crazy.
- Nice.

Well, best of luck with
how important that work is.

Yeah.

It's nice you got a little partner, right?

Student president.

If it gets cold, you can wear
her like a sweater, I guess.

- Uh...
- Oh my god.

- Uh, cold.

And I might need it now
'cause I'm feeling the chill.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- So you don't wanna?

You wouldn't wanna?
- Do what?

- [Lou] I don't know.

- Come roll around on the ground?

- I was thinking of something
more structured like sparring,

but you know, actually-

- You seem a little flustered
for the Maximum Legend.

- I think I'm supposed to
be somewhere right now.

I got a phone call.
- [Brennan] Oh, yeah?

- A phone call as a teenager?

- I gotta be somewhere.

I got a phone call.

- [Lou] I have a scheduled
phone call with my bank.

- She says, "Well, you
better get to that."

She leans in and pulls down
on your earlobe a little bit

and says, "You missed your
shot, Playboy" and leans back.

- He has a scheduled call with his bank.

I don't understand how
that's a missed shot.

- You see...

Yeah, Alston Hughes is just like,

"Fabian, we need to talk, your money."

Oh, you also do get 10,000 gold pieces.

- Oh yeah. Great.

- Jesus Christ.
- So sick.

- Incredible.

Any other Mystery roll here?

Yes.

- Yeah, Riz is going to
the old conspiracy board.

One thing I want to look into is,

I feel like this isn't totally tied up.

The fact that-what was the
name of the demon again that?

- Bakur.
- Bakur.

That Bakur's- the demon
they worked for or whatever,

that Lydia was able to stop the ritual.

I wanna look into when...

Was this before Ragh was
born, that this happened?

Like, I kinda wanna see timelines.

Because I'm doing a
little bit of math in that

Kalina said Ragh. And if
Lydia gave birth to Ragh

after she sealed away this demon,

is Ragh maybe not the savior,

but the vessel for whatever this is?

Was Kalina trying to warn us about Ragh?

- Gotcha.
- Damn.

- Go ahead. And this, to me, is

almost Insight or something like that,

but gimme a Mystery roll here.

We can do Investigation and
the DC's 15 for a small clue,



and then 30 is a breakthrough in the case.

[die rolling]

- 23.

Okay.

Ragh was born before the gem went in.

Ragh was born before, was
already alive before the gem

went in for Lydia.
- Got it.

- He was young, like middle school age,

around that time.
- Oh, okay.

- So you don't see him
as being, like, an avatar

for whatever this is.
- Got it.

Just looking out for Ragh.

- Looking out for Ragh.

But I think you do stay
on that tip about Kalina

and her saying Ragh Barkrock
and what that's all about.

- Lucy Frostblade.

I want someone to look
into a Lucy Frostblade.

- I'm gonna look into her as well.

- Cool.

Go ahead and gimme another one.

The DC's 20 if you wanna look into that.

[die rolling]

- Nat one becomes a 21.

Turns into a 10.
- Cool. Copy that.


- [Ally] So sick.

- So that's a small clue.
- [Murph] Okay.

- You chase her down, narrow down where...

The period she went
missing was in that period

between finals and the end
of the school year last year.

So it's, like, a two week max period.

The last known location for
her before she went missing,

she was confirmed dead with magic.

Scrying magic confirmed that she had died,

but they never found the body.

- Got it.

- She went missing near Lake Shimmerstone.

- Do we know anything
about Lake Shimmerstone?

Is it near the forest?

- [Brennan] The last thing
you'll find on a 23, Riz.

- [Ally] Oh!

- [Zac] It's near the Rat Grinder-

- Near the woods.
- Right near.

It's right near the damn woods.

- Ah.

- The last thing you'll find on that, Riz,

is in that two week period after finals,

that two week period after finals-

- I wasn't gonna fold it.

It's too loud.

- But seemingly purposely
brushed Beardsley.

- In the two week period
after finals last year,

Lucy submitted paperwork

to change her deity

starting in junior year.

And withdrew it.

There's a letter from her saying like,

"Hey, I know I submitted
something to change my deity,

but I'd like to withdraw that."

- What was it submitted to change to?
- [Murph] Yeah.

- That information you cannot
find in the school records.

- Hm, interesting.

- Okay. Okay.

- And what does it mean that
Scrying magic confirmed dead?

Does that mean like, is that something

that like Nondetection could
do or like Arcana-wise?

- Well, that's the thing,

not where the body went or what happened.

It was basically a low Augury spell.

It was like, is she alive?

It was like, let's do a thing to see

if she's somewhere in this plane.

That was inconclusive 'cause
it's like she's in the-

So they're ruling it dead
'cause they're basically

like, we asked if she's anywhere living

on the material plane.

We did these different auguries

and different types of divinations.

- So she's not necessarily dead.

She's just not alive and
on the material plane.

- Correct. Yes.
- Great.

- That is correct.

Any other Mystery rolls?

- I would love to do an
Arcana check on the principal.

- [Brennan] Go for it.

- 'Cause just something seems super off

about him to me.
- [Brennan] Yeah, go for it.

- It's a 16, which means I don't pass.

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.

- Some stress.

- [Lou] Gimme, gimme.
- Hell yeah.

- [Lou] Gimme, gimme some stress.

- That's a 20, dirty 20.

- Adaine, you've done a couple different

checks right now, right?

So, you're actually up to a 25 right now.

So on that 20, Grix remains a little bit

of a mystery to you, but
you do see some weird stuff

about the amount of
bureaucracy that has appeared

at the school is very alarming.

As we come out of this downtime,

you found some stuff
about Lucy Frostblade.

But before we close downtime-

Yes, Kristen.
- Yes.

I would love to go back to Yolanda.

- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.

- And kind of tell her
about the little rumblings

that I've had and just
the windows clicking open

and being kind of like, this feels...

something's still there.

I might get back to it.

And I was just wondering,..

'Cause I remember talking to Lucy,

and I was wondering
whatever happened to her.

- She gets very sorrowful here.

Go ahead and give me a-

- I get an advantage on History checks.

Can I do you that?
- Yeah, gimme History.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[dice rolling]

- God dammit.

- So close.
- So close.

That's just a 10.

- You can take a stress.
- I'll take a stress.

I'll take a stress.

[dramatic music]
[die rolling]

God dammit.

All right, that didn't work.

I'll take a stress please.

- [Zac] The little s- you can
tell you get happy when...

- I get happy when you
guys take stress tokens.

I do.

[dice rolling]

- Much better.

Okay.

That is a- ugh, that's only a 19.

- Oh!

As their Paladin, for potentially Paladin,

can I give them a Bardic?

I know that that sentence makes no sense.

- You can give a Bardic if you want.

- [Ally] Yeah?

- I think it's like corrupted,

but like maybe it won't be bad.

- [Ally] I don't f*cking care.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go roll me a corrupted Bardic.

- It's an eight?
- It's a d8.

- Eight, an eight on the die.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- Okay, so that's a 27.

- Yolanda says,

"Lucy was a wonderful, wonderful student.

It's been very hard
these last few months."

- What was her domain again
or who was she following?

- She worshiped a goddess
of giants and giantkin

named Ruvina, who was a
goddess of winter and sorrow.

- Whoa.

- Lucy was not a very happy soul,

but was a very kind soul.

And her interpretation
of that goddess was,

the winds are cold and we
are made to warm each other.

And the night is long and that
is why we keep the fire lit.

- Wow, that's beautiful.

Hard.
- Yolanda sheds a tear.

She was very special.

Very, very special.

- Would Riz have told me already

that she tried to put in the-

- We can allow that. Yeah.
- Okay.

Wasn't she hoping to
switch from that though?

Was it to something more positive?

- Lucy would never have switched.

No, I don't think so.

- Oh, she was really committed to that?

- Oh, undoubtedly.

Her conviction was profound.

I mean, it's an ancestral
goddess of her people

going back a long, long time.

- Yeah, I thought so, too.

- I'm sorry, she actually says,

"From the Mountains of Chaos."

She's like, "Yeah, from
the Mountains of Chaos

for a long, long time."

- Oh, my- I have a friend
who's in the office

with paperwork and they
just said they were sure

that they saw a request
form going in her record.

I don't know.

- Does your friend have
something I could see

that would confirm that?

Nothing ever made its way to me that-

- Oh, it's not in her file or
in any of your info on her?

- Well, it would've needed my approval.

When was it submitted?

- I give the time.

- She looks and says, "Well,
after that time period,

I mean, most of us,

we've already submitted our final grades.

I just wasn't at school
during those two weeks.

This is... I need to
talk to Principal Grix.

This is-
- So she tried to

switch her god, but you don't
think she would ever do that,

and then she died?

- Kristen, I wanna thank you very much

for bringing this to me.
- Yeah.

- I wanna thank you very
much for bringing this to me.

- Oh, can I do an Insight
check and see if she's real?

- [Brennan] Yeah. Yeah.
- Or if she's feels like

found out or something?

I don't know.
- [Brennan] Yeah.

[die rolling]

- Okay.

Insight is, oh, that's a 27.

- She looks upset and frightened.

- I don't know much about Principal Grix,

but is that someone...?

Up to you, yeah.

I just have gotten a weird,

he shot a net at multiple students,

and then rode out of the room
leaving them in the nets.

I don't know.

I'm just kind of
wondering if he has, like,

the care capacity

for something this big.

- You're right.

I won't go to Grix,

but I need to find out
what is known about this.

There should have been a
document attached to this

that would've said the
deity she was changing to.

Was that... is that...?

- They said it was blank

or that they couldn't find
that information anywhere.

- Okay.

I won't talk to Grix.

I'm gonna go talk to Vice
Principal Stardiamond,

see what we can find out.

Thank you for bringing this to me.

- Of course.

Anything you need help with,

I would love if you need more eyes

on the ground or something like that.

- Please keep your eyes open, Kristen.

She leans over and

hands you a little token.

And you see that there's
a small little emblem

that just says, "When the
only thing you can believe in

is believing" and hands it to you.

- What's this?

- Hold onto it.

Hold onto it.

- Is there a little picture
of Bruce Springsteen?

- Yes, you see there is
a- tight jeans, bandana.

It's the Boss, baby.

You head out from there.

- Question of clarification from that.

- [Brennan] Yes.

- Was the god's name
look like it was redacted

by the school?

Or did it look like a forbidden
thing that couldn't be

spoken because maybe the god is dead now?

[dramatic music]

- Riz.

You take some of your
dad's celestial spy gear

and you put the sheet under it.

The sheet is not blank,

but the thing written on it
cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

- [gasps] Show it to me.

Wait, hang on.

First of all-
- I just jump through

the window without opening it up

with the backpack on.
- Riz, you f*cking,

you cracked it.

The thing on it.
- You're covered in blood.

- What?

- Let me get that window for you.

- Yes, there's something here to this.

It's redacted.

And Kristen, as you guys
get together with Riz,

altogether as we come outta this downtime.

With that said, any
other downtime activity

or anything else like that?

- I mean, I'd love to try to get

one of these stress tokens off,

even though the DC's, like, insane.

- You cannot do it in the same track.

You have to do it on the next downtime.

- Oh, oh, gotcha.
- Is there spa day where we...?

- Yeah. So, by the way,

how many stress tokens
does everybody have?

- Just one.
- I have two.

- Three.
- Two.

- Three.
- Tres.

- Who here only has one?

- I only have one.

- As it gets towards November,

how fried is Fig with one stress token?

- She's definitely the
most fried she's ever been.

- Oh, really applying yourself.

You have an A+ in Barbarian/Paladin,

with an A+ in Warlock.

How does that friedness manifesting?

- I think it's manifesting
in the sort of zombie-like

going through the motions,
and you're going through

the motions that you're supposed to feel,

and hoping that it will kick in.

- A hundred percent.

Just going through. Who
has two stress tokens?

How are Adaine and Riz looking right now?

- I think that Adaine thinks
that she's keeping it together,

but she's just doing that thing

where she gets home from school

and just immediately goes to her room.

- Yeah.

- Just not socializing with anybody.

Maybe even not even eating with anybody

or just like eating one handed.

- A hundred percent.

Riz. - I think Riz is just
not slowing down at all.

And if he does, that
is when he will break.

- Yes, a million percent.

For everyone to know at home, by the way,

stress tokens, all of these
people before our next

episode together, will have
to pick multiple things

to now have disadvantage on

as they become riddled with stress.

At the top of next episode,
we'll go into what you all pick.

- Disadvantage on Animal
Handling and Nature.

[all laughing]

- I don't wanna touch your dog.

For our three stress,
Gorgug, Fabian, and Kristen,

how we looking?

- I think-

well, the thing that really
f*cked me up with stress is

the Frostblade mystery.
- Yeah.

- So I think it's that kind of thing

where if you do hear about,

even if you didn't know the person

and you find out that they died

and you had been so close
to them for so long,

it's extremely unnerving.
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- And so I think she's
pretty thrown off of her game

of popularity and all of that.

- And all of a sudden you're
doing all this religious

research and Riz can
prove to you conclusively

that there was an unnameable
god on this sheet.

- Yeah.

- And I think there's a
certain degree of, well, f*ck.

Now that's the thing.

Fabian.

- I mean, I think it's-

Fabian I think is mostly
keeping it together

on the outside, but I
think it's just, like,

all of his systems are falling apart.

Like, I think there are days
where he forgets to shower.

There are days where
he only eats one meal,

and doesn't have time to finish it.

I think he's working
so hard on the exterior

and the social aspect that
his actual personal routine,

his house is a f*cking mess.

He's missing all of these phone calls

that he has scheduled with his banker.

I think it's just- his ability...

He's putting all of his
energy outward into the world

and keeping none for himself.

- [sighs] Gorgug.

- I think Gorgug is just
so locked into school

and getting these grades up,

and taking this absurd course
load that it's manifesting

similar to Adaine and it's
just, like, pretty antisocial,

knowing that there's a larger
mystery that we need to be

trying to figure out.

But just having no energy for it

and feeling like he's letting
down the group in that way.

- Gorthalax has a conversation
with you where he's like,

"Hey, the team needs you to step up

in a big way. And I'm sorry,

it's not fair, but we
gotta make those passes.

We just gotta make 'em."
- Yeah. Okay.

- And there's just a weight
that descends over you guys

as you get into early November

and stress begins to manifest and pool.

It is the day of Frosty Fair

where there's gonna be the
Frosty Fair Folk Festival

at the Thistlespring Tree.
- At my house.

- [Brennan] At Gorgug's house.

- I forgot to look into the fraud.

- Yeah, that's right.
- I forgot to sign up.

- A Frosty Fair fraud.

- But actually this is perfect.

- At Mordred, for you guys
that are getting together

'cause it's gonna be a huge
party over at Gorgug's place.

- It's massive pre-game
over at Seacaster Manor.

- Massive pre-game at Seacaster.

It's a huge place to go.

Riz, I'll say this too.

The Sylvan crowd, all the leaves and silks

and kind of Green Man

fae-oriented students,

it's a huge voting bloc.
- Hm.

- It's a absolutely huge voting bloc.

And they're all gonna
be at the Folk Festival.

Some of you guys are coming downstairs,

you see Lydia at the kitchen table.

Huge breakfast, fresh
biscuits, flaky biscuits,

and there's sausage gravy
and all kinds of great stuff.

She takes a huge thing of
arcane tomes and scrolls

and slams them on the kitchen table.

"Got in touch with the families.

So we got all the stuff
from Rana and Cormyr

from the Bakur stuff here."

- Oh my God.

- Riz, Kristen, you had your conversation

about the stuff you've
found that you've kind of

just now put together.

The language on all of this Bakur stuff

that you are expecting to be Infernal

is written in the language of Giants.

- Ooh.

- And that's all for this
episode of "Dimension 20."

Tune in next week as we continue

at the Frosty Fair Folk Festival.

- See you at Basrar's.

- [All] See you at Basrar's.

[Lou hushes]

- We see the Thistlespring Tree

and the Frosty Fair Folk Festival.

Have you ever heard of emotional music?

- Emo music?
- Yeah.

- Yeah, it's, like, pretty cool.

- You're out of the band.
[all laughing]

[Brennan squawking]

- Frosty Fair is about
love and having a good time

and appreciating bodies,

and that's why we're
gonna give this as*h*le

a piece of our mind, two, three, four!

[rock music]

An end to festivities

here amongst flagrant rule breaking.

- We're not at school right now, man.

[electricity zapping]

- I was made to optimize
the school experience.

The school experience is best optimized

by being omnipresent.

- [Zac] Four parents on a
b*ttlefield is too many.

- Look, the festival celebrates bodies.

You know, there's a nudity
tent, but that's not sexual.

That's just about admiring each other.

- Gorgug's eyes are darting
between his biological parents

and his adopted parents.

- [Brennan] Hey, looking
for the shoe rack?

- Well yeah, I guess that
would be the first thing

to come off.

No, there's danger outside.

We need as many people in
here to help as we can.

And you don't have any
time to put on clothes.

- You know the nudity tent's nonsexual.

- Look, I can't get into
your whole thing right now.

I'm pretty sex-positive, okay?

- You saved me.

- Wanda.

I literally wrote this song about you.

This is kind of crazy actually.

Like I know other stuff
is going on right now,

but this is actually kind of crazy.

- Hey, girlie.

Hey, girlie.
- What did you call me?

- What?
- Riz, you're our only hope.

- Don't put anymore pressure on me.

- What cause do you have
with these Bad Kids?

Do you not see that
there is a better world?

You feel your mind slinking away.

Perfect order.

Is that really so bad?

- I'm in.
[ominous music]

- Don't do this.

All the weeks they've
done working on this,

please think about it.

- [Ally] Cursed season.

- [Brennan] Cursed, cursed.

[ominous music]
[electricity zapping]

- Oh sh*t.

Oh God.
- Oh my God.

- Oh my God.
- f*ck.

♪ T-T-T-Taking over teenage rebellion ♪

♪ No more fantasizing about it ♪

[upbeat music]

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Go, go, go ♪
♪ Hey, hey, let's go ♪