To the Hounds! | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 9 Part 2

Summary

Critical Role – “To the Hounds!” (Campaign 4, Episode 9, Part 2)

Recorded: December 23, 2025
Podcast: Critical Role
Host & GM: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Main Cast: Wickham, Teor, Cadogan, Thimble, Wick, et al.

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Episode Overview

This episode continues Campaign 4's arc in the town of Ty Breezley (often mispronounced comedically by the cast). The party investigates a potentially suspicious hospital linked to the Candescent Creed, navigates local political and magical intrigue, and embarks on a high-stakes infiltration of Castle Dhalani to rescue Teor’s brother. The session crescendos with tense stealth, intrigue, and a climactic confrontation in the castle’s dungeons, ending with one party member in mortal peril.

Themes:

• Paranoia over hidden plots in seemingly benevolent institutions
• Distrust of religious/political alliances
• The morality and dangers of necromancy/resurrection
• Classic heist/infiltration hijinks with improvisational disguises

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Key Discussion & Story Points

1. Return to Ty Breezley and Hospital Recon

• Setting Description: The town is vibrant with festival preparations. The hospital, a repurposed granary, is central to festivities and aid (02:42).
• Party Dynamic: The group debates the wisdom of investigating the hospital versus maintaining stealth, riffing on their notorious reputations and disguise abilities.
• “Every time someone sees her, no offense, they freak the fuck out.” — Teor (07:17)
• Plan: Ultimately, Thimble, Cadogan, and Tyranny plan a covert survey of the hospital while Wickham and Teor support from nearby.

2. Gift Shop Shenanigans

• Wickham tries to curry favor with Thimble by shopping for a gift, leading to a comic misunderstanding about fairy traps and local superstitions (13:40–18:05).
• “Fairies love this honey… they get stuck, they get exhausted, they fall in the holy water and it kills them dead.” — Shopkeeper (17:39)

3. Surveilling the Hospital

• Thimble rolls consecutive natural 20s for perception and stealth (20:26), observing the benevolent Lux Aretea at work, feeding and healing the poor.
• Suspicious Event: Taconis guards arrive, one with lion-sized claw wounds, enter the hospital from the castle direction (27:13).
• “Those are more comparable to a lion’s claws.” — Brennan Lee Mulligan (27:23)

4. Debates on Necromancy and Resurrection

• The party suspects the hospital’s benevolence might mask necromantic activity, especially with references to the dead returning and a fever plague (36:13–41:14).
• Notable table talk about the metaphysics of resurrection in this setting, confirming that only gods could restore someone fully in soul and mind (40:12–41:00).

5. Festival and The Lord’s Public Conversion

• The narrative shifts as Lord Gontri Talkeep arrives with his wife’s coffin, publicly converting to the Candescent Creed and sparking public mourning/celebration (44:43–48:54).
• “I come bearing the body of my wife… She is gone. I wish for her soul to know the light.” — Lord Talkeep (47:33)
• The mass gathering provides the party a perfect distraction for castle infiltration.

6. Infiltrating Castle Dhalani

• The group debates entry points and various disguise options, including illusions of cookies and impersonating minor nobles (50:04–56:13).
• Eventually, Thimble scouts ahead over the wall, witnessing key NPCs (Univere, Doset) plotting and movements around the cellar—realizing the "target" may move soon (58:09–61:11).
• “Men, to me. We leave tonight.” — Doset (61:00)

7. Using the Egg—Magical Invisibility

• The party activates their mysterious “egg,” granting true invisibility and enabling a stealth crossing of the castle courtyard (67:20–70:00).
• “You all have gained the invisible condition.” — Brennan Lee Mulligan (67:45)
• Exceptional stealth rolls (several natural 20s) let them bypass guards and enter the castle's secondary keep undetected.

8. Dungeon Delving: The Search for Teor’s Brother

• In the wine cellar, hints of foul play emerge: recent torch removal, caged areas, ominous reports from a talking rat about unnatural deaths (75:55–86:35).
• “They vanish, but they don’t rot. I can’t smell them anymore.” — Rat (86:04)
• Thimble discovers a hidden door with a secret stone (83:00–86:51).

9. Climax: The Trap Is Sprung

• The hidden corridor leads deeper, but the party triggers an alert. Tyranny (disguised as Octis Taconis) attempts deception with a group of Taconis guards and an imposing Saramai Knight (92:44).
• Saramai Knight: “If you were Octis Taconis, you’d already be dead.” (94:54)
• The knight unleashes a chained basilisk (or similar petrifying lizard). Tyranny must save against petrification as the episode ends on a major cliffhanger.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Distrust of the Hospital:
  “I don't trust you.” — Cadogan (04:55)

• On Necromancy:
  “...there are limits to necromancy. You can come back, but not like you were, and not without terrible, terrible costs.” — Brennan Lee Mulligan (41:00)

• On Stealth Tactics:
  “You guys full side shimmy, silent as the fucking grave.” — Brennan Lee Mulligan (69:48)
  “We should plan to take one of these carriages the fuck out of here…” — Teor (70:11)

• Comic Relief:
  “It's just a little boner. I’m just a rock hard...” — Wick, as Tyranny faces petrification (96:07)

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Important Timestamps

• Hospital Discussion & Plans: 04:25–13:02
• Gift Shop/Fairy Trap Scene: 13:40–18:16
• Stealth/Surveillance at Hospital: 20:26–28:00
• Necromancy/Spirit Rules Discourse: 40:12–41:14
• Lord’s Public Conversion/Procession: 44:43–48:54
• Castle Infiltration Planning: 50:04–61:11
• Egg Activated, Stealth Sequence: 67:20–70:00
• Dungeon Search, Rat Talks: 75:55–86:35
• Basilisk Trap/Cliffhanger: 92:44–end

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Final Beat & Next Steps

The episode ends with the party—spooked, exhausted, but together—deep beneath Castle Dhalani, freshly revealed, and facing overwhelming odds. Tyranny stands petrified (or on the edge of it) as the Saramai Knight springs a deadly trap. The rescue attempt for Teor's brother now hangs by the thinnest of threads.

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A beautifully chaotic and tension-filled session, rich with improvisation, high fantasy intrigue, and the kind of character comedy/tension only Critical Role delivers.

Transcript

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and you're listening to part two of this episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this adventure and the world of Ahriman. We return to Tall Breezle. Sorry, Ty Breezley.

[Teor]

No, no. Tall Breezley Talbries.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait, what did I say?

[Teor]

Ty Breezley.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ty Breezley.

[Wickham]

Don't ever listen.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sam said come right before. And so I.

[Wickham]

Because we were talking about sperm.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We were talking about it. Yeah.

[Teor]

Michael Potts going forward.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hello and welcome back from the break from tonight's episode of Critical Role. All of you stand. All of you stand in not even an alleyway, just sort of like a small. It's basically just the space between two buildings on this outer road. You see Tybres Lee on this big wide expanse just kind of grows naturally like a spiderweb out from. So the roads all kind of lead to the center of town with some little branching pathways here and there. Beautiful sunshiny day, People laughing, getting ready for the festival. You can see that a lot of this is preparation for sundown. So obviously it's bright daylight. Candles are not being lit, but people are placing candles all the way out. It smells like beeswax and fresh baked cookies on the street. And you see that a lot of the faithful are out walking. And you see that even a lot of the peasantry are being handed these little paper garlands to wear and add a little bit of white to their clothing as they go and approach the town square in front of a hospital that you can see. The hospital appears to be built in this old. What might have been either a granary or some other kind of building that's been repurposed for this. Looks a little bit old and worse for wear. Mighty it might be at the time where it's lived the life of this type of building where it's still safe to be in there. But you look and see people gathering. You're still in your alleyway. And as the hounds depart, you feel a little bit of that pass without trace still left on you. Normally that would go with the Hound of the King, but you can see that they've given you probably a little bit of time to move stealthily in town, if you so wish.

[Wickham]

We just took a break and didn't talk about what we're about to do now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I mean, we want to do that off kick.

[Teor]

Well, I had a thought. That hospital is new. You said you were surprised to hear that your family had made a hospital here.

[Wickham]

Yes, but pleasantly surprised.

[Teor]

It would track that there are perhaps ulterior motives with this hotel hospital.

[Cadogan]

Literally, as soon as you were explaining how beautiful and sunny and serene my knee jerk reaction, my head Was to go. I don't trust you.

[Teor]

But my face, I think, would match perhaps anyone that has seen sids. And you would draw a crowd. You are well known here. I was wondering if.

[Announcer]

No.

[Wickham]

Yes. No, you're absolutely right.

[Teor]

I was wondering if maybe you would be open to going into the hospital, seeing what might be able to be discerned.

[Wick]

Do you guys want to talk to the Lux? Aretea is her name.

[Wickham]

She's in there. But you have to get in there first.

[Teor]

That's also a person of high station.

[Wick]

We have that egg that makes everybody sick.

[Teor]

We do. We do.

[Cadogan]

She's only been alive for nine months. Not exactly a massive nine months in this real.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Six months.

[Teor]

Six months.

[Wick]

If we get everybody sick, we can make it. We could make ourselves sick. Any reason to get to the hospital?

[Wickham]

Don't get me wrong.

[Teor]

Maybe just being able to figure out what is going on with the hospital. What's in the bowels of the hospital.

[Cadogan]

I think to your point, we don't know very much right now.

[Teor]

Right. So it could just be a hospital.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

So you three will scout or just you or what's the.

[Teor]

Every time someone sees her, no offense, they freak the fuck out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But she could change her appearance.

[Thimble]

It could be a great distraction.

[Wick]

Listen, what I heard is that people are gonna be afraid of me. And I love that. I think that this is a great opportunity for young Wickander to show his power and his, you know, his leadership.

[Wickham]

I appreciate your faith in me.

[Teor]

How so? In being able to cull the aspirations of a Dem or what?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Mm.

[Teor]

But aren't we trying to hide his famous face?

[Wick]

No, he just. I mean, you're out in the world, aren't you?

[Teor]

Not here. We just landed here.

[Thimble]

Yeah, and also, if our goal is to steal Cid away, do you want at legit to link that to you as well?

[Wickham]

Not particularly, no. I'd like to choose my battles. And this is your thing. And I'm happy for you to take the lead on this one. If you think it's wiser to go in stealthily, then Tierney can change her appearance. Katakan, I'm sure, can. Sneaky, sneaky all over the place.

[Cadogan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Wickham]

And little, sorry, petite young Thimble can also sort of fly in.

[Wick]

Literally older than you, dude.

[Wickham]

Okay, well, I mean, she's all right. Little old Thimble can go in to small places and pay some respect to your elders. Sure, yes.

[Cadogan]

Kadigan sort of looks around at this group and for the first time, sort of is drinking in exactly what we look like. This Is our first time truly together in a city. And we are a menagerie, including my giant wolf, who's dressed like a person. And I am a human man kind.

[Thimble]

Of dressed like a wolf.

[Wickham]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a wolf person.

[Cadogan]

And while he's loathe to do it, I think he's considering. You know, I would be an okay choice to be nondescript.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

So I just really, really, really, really want to scare one person as a demon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I just really.

[Wick]

And you could put on a light show, and, you know, that would make people so happy.

[Teor]

Does it feed you? Does it nourish your demon soul? If you scare people, don't make it. You claw some radiate.

[Wick]

No, I don't know. I don' think that that's. Listen, people have made assumptions about me, and who am I to not give them what they want? You know, I just. They want to see a scary demon and also a scary demon be punished.

[Teor]

Fair. Good.

[Wickham]

Perhaps we should go about this surreptitiously.

[Cadogan]

We do have the benefit of the bone of the hounds.

[Wickham]

Yes.

[Teor]

And if the hospital turns out to be nothing, if there are no resources being shuttled, or if my brother is not being kept there, the castle is sold. Certainly. Where your ability to change along with his famous face will come along.

[Cadogan]

Just a short, short scowl.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Announcer]

See?

[Cadogan]

What's going on?

[Wick]

Tiny scout.

[Cadogan]

Tiny scout.

[Wick]

And if anything goes wrong, then I am going full demon mode.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hey, great.

[Cadogan]

You know what? Why don't you come with me?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We'll go.

[Wick]

We'll all go. Wait, Aren't we all going?

[Cadogan]

Why don't you?

[Wickham]

The plan is to only come in one or two with me.

[Wick]

Oh, privately. You want to have a private aside? Padigan is asking if he wants to kiss.

[Cadogan]

No, I.

[Teor]

You know, she says out loud.

[Cadogan]

I heard it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Wickham]

Come with me.

[Wick]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

For a bit.

[Wick]

Where do you want to go?

[Cadogan]

We're gonna check things out.

[Wick]

Leave him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

I'll be fine.

[Teor]

Are you.

[Wickham]

Tayor's sworn an oath to protect me.

[Cadogan]

Ain't a bound by proximity or something, are you?

[Thimble]

No.

[Wick]

I guess a lot Emma's worried about.

[Teor]

I will look over you.

[Thimble]

You don't want to come into the what if. What if your brother's at the hospital?

[Teor]

Then they will send word or come out and go for the cavalry.

[Cadogan]

You stay in the shadows. If we get made, she can change what she looks like. And I'm just a guy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Okay.

[Thimble]

I'm not going. This is literally what I do.

[Wickham]

You should do.

[Teor]

You should go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Absolutely.

[Teor]

Of course. But I don't know if you go where they go?

[Thimble]

No, I can scout another.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's my point.

[Thimble]

I think you two stay together.

[Cadogan]

Well, you can come along if you want. It's up to you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Wick]

This is virtually the first time we've been separated for the three months that I've known you.

[Teor]

I thought.

[Wick]

Do you want to just. Six months?

[Thimble]

Yeah, six months.

[Wick]

How long has it been?

[DSW Announcer]

I don't know.

[Wick]

How long is time here? Every month is 45 days.

[Thimble]

Do you want to.

[Wick]

Oh, my God.

[Wickham]

No, this is good. I've been holding in a poo for a while, and I really need to go do it alone, so.

[Wick]

For three months?

[Teor]

Yes. She's super.

[Cadogan]

That's a long concentration spell.

[Wick]

Before I go, do you want to have a moment and pray?

[Wickham]

Certainly, if it will help you, yes.

[Announcer]

Okay.

[Wick]

I hold out my hands to touch Wick's hands.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, go ahead.

[Wickham]

Oh, sorry. Yes. May the light illuminate you in this journey. May your own inner radiance shine through your shadow, and may you find truth beyond. I believe in you. Even if I don't believe in all of the words in my creed. I do believe that it means goodness will come, and goodness will come to you. Make me proud.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Wick]

Okay, I'm ready.

[Cadogan]

All right, we'll go to the front, see if anyone's coming and going. You take the sides, see if there are any entrances, exits that we could take. And I don't know. We'll come back together in a few moments.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Cadogan]

Half past the hour.

[Thimble]

Sure.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All right. Who has the egg? Hell, yeah.

[Teor]

Who is the egg?

[Wick]

Who is the egg?

[Teor]

Not you anymore.

[Wickham]

I have an egg, but it's not the one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Where are people wending their way?

[Wickham]

Wending their way?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hospital. Hospital. Okay, so, Thimble, you're heading to the hospital with whom you're in your companionship.

[Thimble]

They are also going to the hospital, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. So, Thimble, Cadogan, and Tyranny are headed to the hospital. Teor and Wick, where are you guys headed to?

[Wickham]

What do you want to do?

[Teor]

I was gonna say nearby, sure, but I think removed. Off of the road or thoroughfare. Sort of off in the corners, in the shadows.

[Wickham]

Are there shops nearby?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There are shops nearby.

[Wickham]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Will you buy me something? Mm. You see, Tyre Bridge Lee is one of the few places we talked about. The other places you travel through. My God. There's actually a stables where they are selling h horses here. Now, you don't need any, but, you know, we do have horses we probably need to keep. Yeah. Stabling your horses, finding like who knows how long you'll be in town for, but like finding a place to stay. But yeah, you see, Tyrese Lee is an honest to God town. You see, there's. You hear the clanking of, you know, a hammer on an anvil near a blacksmith shop. Ton of stable work here. A lot of horses in this part of the world.

[Wickham]

Taylor, I get the impression that Thimble doesn't care for me very much.

[Teor]

Oh, whatever gives you that impression.

[Wickham]

I am very insightful. Just little things here and there. It's not anything that anyone else would have picked up on me. I sort of. Maybe it's nothing, but perhaps I could get her some sort of a gift.

[Teor]

To bribe your way into her good graces.

[Wickham]

Show her that I mean. Well, what do you think I should purchase?

[Teor]

Thimble is a ferocious warrior. It would be a bold gesture to try and appeal to her more physical nature.

[Wickham]

So like a weapon or a.

[Teor]

Possibly also Thimble can.

[Wickham]

What's that?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Drink.

[Wickham]

Oh, should I get her a big bottle of alcohol? I don't like to sort of support that.

[Teor]

You should let the light guide you in your gift giving decisions.

[Wickham]

All right. I will look around for some shops.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Lovely. Go ahead and give me investigation.

[Wickham]

That's a four. Nope, that's a one. That's a one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that there is a shop festooned. There's what looks like a small little. It seems like a kind of hunter's lodge or something like that. It has a lot of candescent creed stuff on it. Paper lanterns, everything like that. And you see, it looks like a lovely little shop doing a fair bit of business.

[Wickham]

Join me.

[Teor]

You were going to go in there, the one with all of your own family's stuff all over it?

[Wickham]

Sure. Yes.

[Teor]

What do you mean you are going to go? You are famous.

[Wickham]

I'm going.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, wait.

[Teor]

Grab. I pull back. Actually, I'll take you around this side of the store. I spit in the dirt, rub it off my hands, and I just smear it on your face. Start trying to cover up all the filaments that would turn into disguise.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Check. Which is gonna be a charisma.

[Wickham]

Check.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Teor]

All right. Nine.

[Lowe's Announcer]

Ten.

[Teor]

Ten.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, ten. You're caked with mud and you see there's a small shop next to you and Teyor's out here.

[Wickham]

Some sort of feline thing.

[Teor]

I don't know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I worry about you going in there.

[Teor]

And someone realizing you who you are.

[Wickham]

You worry too much, Teo.

[Teor]

I'm sure. Yes. I will cast shield of faith.

[Wickham]

Boom.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. Shield of faith on you. You walk into the shop, sure. You see there's a bunch of people coming in. There's small little charms. There's a row of shelves that have these strange little hexagonal twig sculptures. There's a bunch of vials of water. And you see there's an old woman behind a counter who's doing a fair bit of business. Behind her, you see there's an old guy who's just carving something out of a piece of wood, looking around, and she says, that's right. Light up. Over here, you got the holy water charms against goblins in ghasts. Keep the fair folk out of your lawn. Keep the dead at bay. Remember, the fairies are ghosts and the ghosts are fairies. They were all wanting the same.

[Wickham]

I don't think that that's true, but do you have anything that a fairy might like here?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, something that would call a fairy. Sorry, no more Gavin. Now, I got you right here. She turns around and you see that she puts a big bucket on the thing that has hon smeared inside it, and then a basin of water at the bottom that you see has a small symbol of the Candescent Creed in there. She says fairies love this honey. It's clover honey, fresh, and it's been sprinkled with a bit of baker's sugar.

[Wickham]

It has.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They come, they lick the honey, they get stuck, they get exhausted, they fall in the holy water and it kills them dead. Kills them.

[Wickham]

I don't think you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Burns the flesh. The light. The light burns the flesh of the fairies.

[Wickham]

So it's like a lens that directs the light on them and sort of.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Goblins causing castle burn in the light, don't they? My lord, you're covered in mud.

[Wickham]

Thank you very much. Have a good evening.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Come back soon. Tell your friends.

[Wickham]

We'll tell our friends.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So that's an AT one. Yeah. Well, keep looking.

[Teor]

Now maybe some insight into why Thimble is upset with you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

For the rest of you headed to the hospital, You arrive. The town square is bumping. You see that there are a number of small, little standing carts, almost like hand carts that have come out that now have little stoves. There's these burning braziers, and you can see that there are acolytes of the hospital that are just cooking food out on the open braziers. Smells delicious. There's a thing of popping corn on a little brazier that's being mixed with candied syrup and handed out in these little bags to kids running around. And you see the doors of the Hospital are open wide. And as you enter into the hospital or as you approach that front gate, you see that there is an acolyte out there helping some people. You see someone who's being carted in on some crutches with a simple peasant's cast on the leg. A few other people that are being attended to. You see that there is an acolyte up here who says, hello, duckies, are you feeling all right?

[Thimble]

Oh, I thought we were passing without a train. Yeah, I'm not with.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, you guys are not entering the hospital. You're just investigating.

[Cadogan]

I would say I wouldn't quite approach just yet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Cadogan]

Though I like hello duckies, ladies. So I want to engage.

[Teor]

You rest engaged.

[Thimble]

I'm just going to stay back leave.

[Teor]

You're doing drone replays.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you want to give me just a perception. And especially are you posting up for a minute?

[Cadogan]

Yeah, I think my idea would be to be across the street sort of scoping out the space for just a minute for first. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Kind of trying to stay out of.

[Cadogan]

Sight to the best of our abilities.

[Wickham]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that? Go ahead and give me a perception with advantage, both of you, if you're posted up here for a while. And then give me the stealth too. And then tyranny.

[Thimble]

Natural 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Natural 20.

[Thimble]

And then for stealth, I don't need anything. Then natural 20.

[Teor]

What the wow happening.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are those the same two dice?

[Teor]

They are, aren't they?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Holy wow shit. O and that's with a 10 from pass without trace. So you are vanished, I think Thimble here in this place with the symbols of the Creed everywhere, you just feel that one of the things aiding your stealth is that your light is diminishing here in this town. There's cold iron up on every archway. You can see there's a lot of symbols. This is a place that really feels far removed from that fairy light. And all you can think about is those grigs the night before telling you that they had heard that the House of Royce had fallen. Parts of the world are in turmoil. It's a time of great change and you can feel the world pulling in many different directions. Here in Tyre Breezley, the world has pulled hard and fast away from the world of faerie. On that NAT20 perception, you see a busy. And I think all of you guys can see this like a very busy open doors at the front of the hospital. The hospital again is sort of retrofitted granary that the Creed has sort of taken to naturally perception. Thank God the Creed is here. There's Food here for these people. These are peasants. When do they get a big party? There used to be holidays when the gods were still here. There were holidays. Sometimes the gods appeared in person. And after the Shapers war, when the gods were defeated, everywhere had to figure out what was going to happen next. Some places made it a priority to try to like replace those things that had existed in the time of the gods. Others didn't. Who knows what the holidays were after. There weren't gods anymore here in Timony, here in Goremelay, here in this particular city. But right now there are some people that are tending to the sick, they're feeding the poor and they're giving paper kites and cookies to the kids. These people live hard lives. Someone's gotta fuckin help them. You see the doors to the hospital open and you see a beautiful young woman. Warm brown skin, hair coiled up in a bun filled with rings. You see that she steps out into the open doorway wearing the finery of a Lux. And you can see that she is glowing with these runes of filament. And you can see that she is clearly a magic user as her eyes glow white. As someone approaches, you see they're coming up on a wheelbarrow. There's an older man with his two sons. One of the sons with the things of the wheelbarrow, the one beside him going, it's my father, he's sick. He started to cough. He fell off a ladder, not the tallest step. But you see, she says, that's all right, that's all right, let me tend to him. Her eyes glow wide. She says, we're going to find him a bed for the time being. And you see, he says, can you touch him? Can you lay your hands on him? And he'll. And you see, she puts a hand on the young man and says, the light is availed to all. But we must in the kindness of our own hearts, give it to those of greatest need. Miracles abound, but they are not infinite. And we must tend to the sick in the order of their greatest urgency. Your father will be with us, I promise. He is not in need of a great miracle. And if he becomes so, we will act at once. Your father will be okay. Come get him into the hospital. And you see that this man is moved in a wheelbarrow into the hospital. She turns around and you can see her moving from place to place on that NAT 20, I think you wait for a while. You see also this woman who's taken to the hospital. People are coming up and asking her questions. About the festival. You see, on that nat 20, someone comes up and says, lux, he's coming. He's coming with a carriage. You see? She says, oh, all right. Well, we'll be ready. It's getting closer to sunset. Yes, of course. What's he coming with? You see that he says he's bringing the lady. And you see, she says, what? No, she's at rest in the grove. And you see this man who appears to be not a member of the clergy, but one of those guys in a lot of religious places who's a civilian helper of clergy, goes like, lux, your holiness, he is bringing her. And you see that she looks sort of stunned and goes, all right, See, too, the tables are laid, and we should start ushering people to the edge of the square. And you see, she turns back around. This is all unfolding as we're getting closer to sunset and time. But that's the information you see there. I think on a Nat20, the last thing you see is there is a pair of Taconus guards that ride into town, dismount briefly, go up, and you see, they speak to Aretea, who you realize is this woman who is attending to everybody at the hospital. You see, one of them walks up and gestures to his friend. You see that the friend shows a bad injury, a gash on his arm. And you see that she nods and ushers this Taconis guard in. On a Nat20 perception, which we'll keep rewarding because he rolled two Nat20s in a row, which is insane. Nat Taconis guard has claw marks on his arm.

[Teor]

Rough sex that you know nothing about.

[Thimble]

The size of a mastiff's claw marks.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think you would say those are more comparable to a lion's claws.

[Thimble]

I obviously went there. And I saw which direction they were coming from.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They came from the castle.

[Thimble]

Okay. He said the castle.

[Cadogan]

All right, Mate's Teo's brother's probably in the castle. Yeah, but something's wrong with this hospital. I don't know a lot about a lot, but I know when something's not natural.

[Thimble]

What lady do you think. Do you think it was?

[Cadogan]

I have an idea of what's going on here.

[Thimble]

Care to fill?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know what's going on.

[Cadogan]

I need some time to think about it, but I'm pretty certain.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's.

[Cadogan]

Let's find Teor and let him decide. It's his brother. Yeah, but we should come back here.

[Thimble]

As we start to fly away, I'm just gonna fly in front of Cat again. I'm flying backwards as I'm looking him in the eye. You're here, right? You're here now?

[Cadogan]

Well, I. Literally and metaphorically.

[Thimble]

You're not gonna leave.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Cadogan]

Eventually, but not anytime soon. It's too fun.

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[Cadogan]

And then when she peels off, I'm just gonna pull tyranny aside.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hey.

[Thimble]

Hey.

[Cadogan]

You're doing all right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

I have to say something to you. I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Wick]

This is a little awkward for me, but I know that you and Wulfric have killed demons before. I. Instantly. The second I saw him, he got this look in his eyes, and.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know.

[Wick]

I'm so afraid of you. I am. Yeah, I understand that. I am not like other demons. I'm not trying to cause harm. I'm not trying to do that. And I'm just supposed to be here supporting Wick, so. Please don't hurt me.

[Cadogan]

I wouldn't hurt you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Wick]

Because, actually, I think that we have something in common.

[Cadogan]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Cadogan]

I mean, you don't know shit about me, but go on.

[Wick]

Well, you said. Well, you said that your dad is a bastard, Right?

[Cadogan]

Okay. Double bastard. Dads.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

My dad is literally the shadow of suffering. I love him a lot, though, but.

[Cadogan]

Probably worse than my dad.

[Wick]

I don't know. I mean, he's. My dad's nice to me, though, so I don't know if your dad is nice.

[Cadogan]

My dad is dead and was an alcoholic.

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Lowe's Announcer]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's about it.

[Thimble]

All right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

Well, he said that one cool thing anyways. I just thought that that could be.

[Cadogan]

A. Alcoholics, they say. Cool, because before it gets too bad, that usually makes you a little bit creative, but.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Cadogan]

Anyway, I was actually gonna ask you something way more practical, if that's all right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Cool.

[Wick]

Just now that we know that you have killed demons. And you.

[Cadogan]

No, I've got demons, undead, questionable sprites, wraiths and spirits. I mean, pretty much anything.

[Wick]

Have you killed a fair.

[Cadogan]

Can you do that thing where you change into someone else?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Cadogan]

Like you disguise yourself?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

Who do you want me to be?

[Cadogan]

Well, here's what I think. I need you to be something that blends in well, that doesn't catch a lot of attention.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Cadogan]

Because you're beautiful, but everyone looks at.

[Wick]

You, and again.

[Cadogan]

This is really difficult. I want you to just be what you want to be, not what you think everybody else wants you to be. Just think of a form in your mind that you want to be in this moment and just be it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't think you want that.

[Announcer]

Okay.

[Cadogan]

I under underneath the the conditions that I already set up. So like if you want.

[Wick]

Oh, something that's Wednesday.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you wanted to be like guarantee.

[Cadogan]

I know exactly. That's what you were thinking.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cadogan]

I just mean like a lot of arms.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Wick]

I. I disguise self and I become a little girl. Like a ten year old girl. Human girl. Human girl. Plain clothes that match the townsfolk. Really big brown eyes, brown hair, really sweet looking.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, that's nice.

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go. You find Teor and Wick? Not too far from where you left them.

[Teor]

Don't say a word about the honey. Just leave it. It is better. Honey I love honey is the best. It attracts bears and we could barely stand it while you were gone.

[Cadogan]

Hey, these are great jokes, but we found your fucking brother.

[Thimble]

He's at the castle. We didn't see him, but we saw a guard come with a big.

[Teor]

That's amazing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

What else was in there?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The hospital?

[Wickham]

Yeah. Was it just.

[Cadogan]

We didn't go for the patients.

[Thimble]

Oh, but your Lux lady, she's full of light.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

Oh, that's nice.

[Wick]

I go up to Wick. I'm like, hello.

[Thimble]

Are you my new dad?

[Wickham]

I don't think so. No. We can help. We should find this young lady's parents somewhere.

[Teor]

You should go.

[Thimble]

Please, sir.

[Wick]

Are we trying to find your brother?

[Teor]

Divine sense picking up anything?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Demon. Pure demon.

[Cadogan]

No, we didn't go in. We got what we wanted.

[Teor]

Thank you for coming to tell us. We should move quickly. The time could be of the essence. The hospital, though. How did you feel about it? Did you see anything that gave you pause besides the locks?

[Cadogan]

Oh, 100% fucked up. I think there's very bad things happening there. I could be wrong, but what I do know is that your brother's in the castle. So we could go back to the hospital later.

[Wickham]

I think bad things like magic or torture or. What bad things? What are you talking about?

[Thimble]

You think so? I just saw a woman healing people. What did you see?

[Cadogan]

I don't know. Something's not right. A sickness. A plague. Out of nowhere. Cart's in and out and it's true.

[Thimble]

I mean.

[Cadogan]

And we heard him say they were bringing Lady Caswin.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is that.

[Cadogan]

Who were to assume this is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's bringing the lady, but you're not.

[Thimble]

We don't know which lady it was.

[Wick]

That Caswin is dead.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, yeah. So? So fuck.

[Cadogan]

I don't know how else to say it. I could be wrong. I'm okay to be wrong. I don't have to be fucking right and clever. I think they're healing people. And I also think they're bringing people back from the fucking dead.

[Wickham]

Well, first of all, young lady, you should cover your ears when we're cursing.

[Cadogan]

Oh my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You fucking idiot.

[Cadogan]

This is tyranny.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Look out. You blew my cover. I know.

[Wickham]

No, please deceive me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I just thought. It's just an assumption.

[Cadogan]

It's just a guess. Maybe I'm totally fucking wrong. But the light and the dark are working together and that doesn't leave a lot in the twilight, if you know what I'm saying. The light can heal and the dead can bring him back. The fucking underworld's overflowing and maybe this psycho lord is trying to bring his beloved love back. I don't know. But something's wrong there.

[Thimble]

Why he was working so closely with.

[Cadogan]

The Tacones, and if this red fever billows fire, whatever the fuck it is, is some sort of way to generate new bodies for some fucking undead army.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know.

[Cadogan]

Maybe I've been chewing on too much fucking.

[Teor]

Always possible. It is always possible. So what you're saying is it's always.

[Wickham]

Possible, an undead army. That's always a possible. Energy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's a thing that exists going on there.

[Thimble]

The dead are spilling out of the underworld. There's nowhere for them to go. There's so many souls just waiting to move on. Of course they would find a body if they could.

[Cadogan]

We know the Taconis can bring people back, right? Isn't that what they do?

[Wickham]

Don't they?

[Thimble]

I think so.

[Wickham]

You know, this about the Tacomas.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me an arcana check. Or religion.

[Wickham]

Not me.

[Thimble]

I mean, pin cushion.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Thimble]

Pin cushion.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

What's pin cushion?

[Thimble]

It's oxygen.

[Wickham]

What is this little fox pet?

[Thimble]

It was definitely a dead fox.

[Cadogan]

My two worst things.

[Thimble]

It's not a dead fox anymore.

[Cadogan]

Oh, My God. My two worst things. That's a nat 20.

[Wickham]

My first one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wow.

[Cadogan]

Yeah, there it is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

First one.

[Cadogan]

First one, I think, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Cadogan]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Here's what you would know on a Nat20, you've been up close and personal with the dead. What you know is there are limits to necromancy on NAT20. On a NAT20, you know that what a wizard, or actually more likely a sorcerer can do with the dead is typically. Typically only bring back a construct, which is zombies, skeletons, things of that nature. Occasionally you can get something really nasty, like a ghoul. But for the most part, the type of undead that come back with their mind intact with something like a spirit of what they had in life are extremely rare. And beyond the ability of sorcerers to conjure or create, those are things like vampires or wraiths, things that are. And even that wraith you guys fought at the wraith tree was a semblance of that intellect, but couldn't hold a full conversation. It's. Everything is effort to hold. Yeah. It's like. It's like your soul is like sand. And the harder you hold onto it, the more of the. It slips away. And you have to pick and choose what memories you're holding onto, what desires, what ambitions or dreams or causes these things, until you just have a few scraps left. There is a broad continuum of the type of life that magic can create. Catagon in Nat 20, Fairies and Demons are literally born of other worlds than this. Perhaps worlds that some would say are older than the world of Ahriman. Maybe the pit and that fairy and the pit were here long before this world ever knew the light of the sun or the touch of the moon. You would know that. You've seen, you know, you saw a little gnomish egg create a massive squid out of light. And that obviously had no intellect of its own. It was just light and noise. But my God, how much farther is it to make a little illusion that maybe could think of something to say? And what's the distance between that and some kind of construct like you've heard they have at the Pentevral? And what's the distance between that? What you would know is that the only stories of anyone ever coming back from death unchanged were due to the direction intercession of gods, that power has been lost to this world. On a NAT20, you can come back, but not like you were. And not without terrible, terrible costs.

[Cadogan]

Like I said, I could be fucking wrong. I don't know anything about this shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But what's the problem?

[Cadogan]

Something smells fucking fishy there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's all I know.

[Wick]

This guy loves his wife so much he wants to try to bring her back.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's the problem?

[Cadogan]

I don't know. That's what he wants to do.

[Wick]

Why shouldn't anyone do everything that they want all the time?

[Cadogan]

That's a good point.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Cadogan]

My only point is direct point of action. We should go back to that fucking hospital after we take care of you brother.

[Teor]

Okay, Understood.

[Wickham]

Unless we're running for our lives. Sure.

[Thimble]

In which case we get out of town.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

If this seems like it's a bigger deal, should.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well.

[Wickham]

No, I trust you. Let's go get your brother and then we'll figure it out.

[Teor]

The way up to the castle is far. Can we see it in the distance or is it relatively close?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's pretty close by. And the castle? Again, it's not a massive royal castle where there would be multiple keeps and stuff like that. This is the castle of the Earl of this region. So it's big. That central keep is maybe like five stories tall and there are a couple different towers and parapets around, but fundamentally it looks like central Keep couple of watchtowers, Another lower keep. The walls cover a central courtyard there. But the towers you see have white plaster on them and these black banners blowing these funereal banners. What you do notice that is a big boon to you guys is that unlike Sloke Castle, which sort of dominated over this tiny little village, the city abuts the castle. The castle's, like, towards the edge of the city, but the city comes up right next to it. So the outer wall of the castle, you know, the wall is maybe like four stories up, and the buildings that are near it are like three stories tall. So there's kind of like a 15 floor. If you can jump over that road or something, you know, like, the city goes right up to it, and there are multiple gates, which is a big one. Tyrese Lee is a place that seems just due to the nature of the landscape and the feeling here is much more open. And this castle, yeah, it's a walled castle, but fundamentally, it's a walled castle of a deep inland, very secure place that's like, hey, we need a place in case we get sieged. But fundamentally, this is a place where things are going well. So let's have a lot of doors so that we can do business and get. You know what I mean? There's a lot more of, like, this is where I'm gonna live. Let's make this useful to be here. Right. So you see that? Yeah, there's. And both keeps center in the wall, which means they have. There's a gatehouse into the courtyard, but then each keep also has exterior double doors that go out into the city. It has, I think even from a distance, you can kind of see because it's up the hill a little bit from you. I assume you're looking at this as you're approaching. I will say, as you guys approach, it's a straight shot. You guys basically go right past the hospital on your way up to the castle.

[Teor]

We'd hug the side of the road, cloaks up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But yeah, yeah, you guys are going. I'll say this is our last stealth check with that pass without trace before it vanishes.

[Thimble]

That's with advantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, you just add 10.

[Thimble]

Add 10.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Roll it straight and add 10. 27. 27. Hell, yeah.

[Wickham]

16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

13.

[Wick]

13.

[Cadogan]

13 plus 10.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. 23.

[Thimble]

23.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

34. 4 inches tall. Where'd Laura go?

[Wick]

I can't see her anymore.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love it. You guys hug into the road, completely surreptitious. You see, coming down the road from the castle, creating a really elegant distraction for you. Guys and probably bringing a lot of like, ooh, that's gotta be good for us. Is a black funeral carriage with 10 black horses in a row with a symbol, a big crest, a sort of house crest on it of what looks like a pair of crossed axes with a set of wings behind it. You see that this is moving down towards the hospital. It's getting to be sunset. People start to cheer. And you see that the Lux says, you may begin to light the candles for candle feast. The food will be coming presently. And we. The carriage enters. And you see the Lux looks out and you see this woman is crying. She has tears in her eyes. She looks and says, my Lord, and kneels as an older man emerges from the carriage. Majestic red and gold diamond cloak this. And then you see this cloak that he drapes behind him. He's wearing all black in his black doublet, black boots. Steps out, older man, long hair, long mustache. His eyes look red and puffy, and you see that he takes a torch, reaches it, goes to the back of the carriage. His men at arms come with him and they bring a coffin off of the back of the wagon. He begins to move. The crowd parts before him. He moves up, places it on this altar or covered table that almost serves as an altar in front of the Lux, in front of the hospital where the feast is about to take place. He goes to the Lux, opens his mouth to speak, and collapses in her arms as she embraces him. And he turns to the people gathered here. He says, I am your lord Gontri Talkeep, Earl of Gormalay. I come bearing the body of my wife, Lady Caswin. She is gone. I wish for her soul to know the light. And you see that the crowd erupts in cheers as the Earl takes off this small sort of polished steel circlet and kneels in front of the Lux. And you can see that she looks down and she says, may the beam reach you, my lord. And you can see that the Earl of Gormlais has converted to the faith of the Candescent creed. Here.

[Thimble]

You may.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sam wrote this background. I didn't gross. You see, he converts in this moment. And people start to cheer. And you see that his guards put shields up and he turns and says, no, they are brothers and sisters. Oh, let them come. And you see that he holds his hands and just the peasants come and approach and he just lets people start to touch his. His arms and body and almost falls into the arms of the peasants here in this place, in front of the Lux, as people just rush and gather for the first time being within arm's reach of their Lord, who is just here weeping as the Lux smiles and goes to put one hand on his chest and the other on the coffin as she begins praying.

[Thimble]

Cool.

[Wick]

Okay, I think that.

[Thimble]

Wait. A lead a. A revolt against the King.

[Teor]

Thimble, we should go.

[Wick]

I think the point is that you would be very well received here. No, maybe.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know.

[Wickham]

This feels like the wrong time to just be like. Hi.

[Cadogan]

Hi there.

[Thimble]

This is a great time. Yeah, this is a great time to go to the castle because all of his guards are here as well as the Lord.

[Wickham]

Wait, are we in front of the hospital or the castle right now?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You were heading to the castle and watched this unfold passing. But yeah, you do see that all the king's horses and all the Earl's horses and all the Earl's men have just come out to the hospital for this big public conversion to the Candescope.

[Teor]

Yeah, we're booking it.

[Cadogan]

Cadigan just says to himself as they take off, oh, that's way worse than making her a sexy zombie.

[Thimble]

Sexy zombie would have been so cool.

[Wickham]

Important martyr is worse.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Correct.

[Teor]

And correct.

[Wick]

Okay, so we all go.

[Teor]

Yeah, we all go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Is this.

[Wick]

Am I being a little girl? Is that helpful for. Or should I be like.

[Wickham]

Yes, we're sneaking in.

[Wick]

We're sneaking.

[Teor]

Okay, we're sneaky. But just in case we are seeing maybe a non child, maybe a guard.

[Wick]

Like one of those guards.

[Wickham]

Sure, sure.

[Wick]

Okay. I'm gonna disguise myself as one of those guards.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Which guards? The guards of the Earl or the guards of house Taconis? Earl. Cool. You turn into one of you give yourself that little crossed axis with the wings behind it and begin to move of the house of Tolkeep. Heading up to the Earl's castle. Castle Dhalani.

[Wickham]

You.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Walk up and you see. Do you approach one of the Major. Do you approach the central gatehouse into the courtyard, or do you approach one of the smaller doors of the keeps?

[Teor]

Feels like the smaller doors would be better.

[Thimble]

I feel like we could just go up and over the side of it. But we could have.

[Teor]

But instead it was a 15 third story to fourth story, so we'd have to get this crazy jump over.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right?

[Cadogan]

True. Boy, for soldiers, we sure are a.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Bunch of sneaks, aren't we?

[Wickham]

I know.

[Teor]

We're special soldiers.

[Cadogan]

Clandestine.

[Teor]

Yes. Side gate, right?

[Wickham]

Yeah, yeah, Special ops.

[Teor]

I mean, unless approaching, because you could clearly see the main gate from almost any space, is it uncharacteristically unguarded? For any reason. Because of the pageantry. Out the front, it's dark.

[Thimble]

There's candles, which would fuck up your view from a distance.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think you see that the sun. As the sun is setting, you begin to. As the sun is setting. Yeah, you begin to see that. There are definitely guards in the castle. But also, again, this is deep inland. There's not an act of war or anything going on here, I think.

[Teor]

I don't know if the guard is the right move, because the thing that we're also missing is a skeleton key. Like something that's gonna actually.

[Wick]

You wanna be a skeleton?

[Teor]

Why can't you be octys?

[Wick]

I can be octis. I met him.

[Teor]

Like a Taconis? Yeah, right. Like something that's actually gonna let.

[Thimble]

Did you ever meet.

[Wick]

He said one sentence to me which was very rude. And so I have no problem with this.

[Thimble]

He was rude to you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But he's so nice.

[Wick]

He was. Well, I mean, I can't say that it was. I mean, it was at Thiazi's funeral, and I can't say that he wasn't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right. Sorry.

[Thimble]

You guys sucked at the time.

[Wick]

Yeah, well, hey, I mean, I wasn't. Listen, I wasn't part of any of that, but. Yeah, I changed myself into Octis.

[Teor]

I just wonder if that'll get us more access.

[Wick]

What do you sound like? He sound like.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, no.

[Teor]

Can you change the way you look at him?

[Wick]

What do you sound like to me?

[Thimble]

He sounds great.

[Wickham]

He sounds like a normal, wonderful person.

[Teor]

No, no, that stays on.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Okay.

[Teor]

You're punishing yourself.

[Thimble]

What are you doing?

[Wickham]

No, no, I've got my mud on my face. That's my disguise.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Wickham]

No, I can't change my.

[Teor]

That's not a. I'm not telling you. That's just a suggestion.

[Wick]

Listen, I changed into octas before, and I really am dying to. I'm dying to be this little nerd who insulted me. Okay, now I mocked us.

[Wickham]

I've got a little fox.

[Thimble]

We're thinking is if we run into any of his family, they're probably gonna know right away.

[Wick]

Don't they hate him?

[Thimble]

He doesn't get along with them at all.

[Cadogan]

Mom, are we overthinking this?

[Teor]

Could be.

[Cadogan]

We're all trying to kick this story and there's four random people. Why does she have to be someone special?

[Teor]

I was trying to think, like, why they let us in. Why they let go anywhere.

[Cadogan]

Tactics, baby.

[Thimble]

We might just let people in here. Also, we might be able to distract him away from the gate for just long enough that all of us can get in the door.

[Teor]

Okay, yeah. Yeah, let's do that.

[Wick]

Plus, we got that egg as we the ones that makes us unseen.

[Thimble]

Not the sink. There's candles lit everywhere. Right.

[Wickham]

Are we sneaking or are we distracting?

[Thimble]

What if. What if we get like close by? This is such a stupid plant.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love it.

[Thimble]

What if we get close by and then I'll use my druid craft to like flare up one of the candles really fast, just enough to like get their eye their attention over to that candle and then you sneak in behind them. If there's anybody at the door.

[Teor]

To answer your question, I think we're gonna try and sneak. But unless they are just total ass at their job, any entrance isn't gonna be unguarded.

[Wickham]

How many guards are there?

[Cadogan]

I get the octave play. I just wonder if it's going to bite us in the ass.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So the gatehouse is open, which means it has a lot of guards. There's probably about six guards there. They all look pissed that they're on guard duty on party night. Right, but there are closed doors on one of the keeps. On one of the keeps, you see, the smallest door is literally, it's reinforced. So it's got the iron and thick oak planks, and it looks like it's barfing inside. But you just see that there is a door with a hound's head knocker on it. There's like a dog holding a brass knocker in its mouth.

[Thimble]

Oh, and they're closed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Those are closed. Yeah. But you see, as you approach, someone comes out of one of them a little ways away. They're not for no use. Right.

[Wickham]

Did the guards at the front gate have eyes on the keep doors or.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Uh, it looks like. No.

[Teor]

Keep doing.

[Thimble]

I was just thinking, what if you. What if you disguise yourself as that priestess lady that was going around serving, giving people cookies?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Thimble]

And then you go up and you offer the guards cookies, and then they come out and gather around you for cookies.

[Wick]

I have two cookies.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Thimble]

That's not her normally having.

[Wick]

You guys have more cookies?

[Wickham]

I can make illusory cookies. I have spells making illusory cookies.

[Wick]

Okay, either illusory cookies or I am octus and Wicandra is helping me find my fox.

[Cadogan]

While it's all having categories, completely dissociated.

[Wickham]

Just waiting for something to happen. Help us brainstorm Octave.

[Cadogan]

Not my strength.

[Teor]

What's on?

[Wickham]

Motivation.

[Teor]

I didn't assign anything to either of.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Those.

[Thimble]

Over 10 octaves below 10 cookies.

[Cadogan]

I love it.

[Thimble]

Octus Avoctus.

[Wick]

And you're Helping me find. What's the fox's name?

[Thimble]

Pincushion.

[Teor]

Fox.

[Wickham]

Okay, so we're gonna go up there and say, Pin. Pincushion.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Pincushion.

[Wickham]

Where are you?

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Wick]

And you're here as Wickham.

[Thimble]

You just go in and you're a Taconus. They'll let you in. Yeah.

[Wickham]

Oh, all right.

[Wick]

And you're helping me.

[Wickham]

I'm helping. Cause we're friends.

[Thimble]

Why is your face so dirty?

[Teor]

There are. Could I.

[Wickham]

Can you get it off me?

[Teor]

Are there any unattended carriages on the street?

[Wick]

Treat I take some.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a perception check.

[Wickham]

Might need to get it wet.

[Teor]

19 plus 3. 22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There are no unattended, but there are some very lightly attended. You see, there's one where it's like. There's a shop that the driver of the carriage has just walked into and is seeing his cart out the window with the horses stopped. There's a couple like that where it's a very light touch, but no one just has their cart hanging out on.

[Teor]

The street on foot. Or should we try and buy or charter a carriage in there? I mean, they're going to check it either way, right? It's a fucking castle. You just going up to the door?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

Is it on foot?

[Wickham]

I'm not a soldier, Thimble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm always a fighter.

[Wick]

Don't you have the egg that makes you invisible still?

[Thimble]

It's a stealthy egg. We're so stealthy already.

[Wick]

Well, yeah, Just in case it wears off with havoc.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think it's more.

[Wickham]

I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wickham]

That was the last patch.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're not traced.

[Wick]

We're not see?

[Thimble]

We're not seeing.

[Wickham]

I have the stealthy egg if you'd.

[Teor]

Like to use it, but I think it obscures your trek. It doesn't.

[Thimble]

I can just go up and over the wall. What do you guys want me to do? Maybe I can go try to get a key from somebody.

[Teor]

Okay, yeah, go do that.

[Wickham]

Should we make you stealthy?

[Thimble]

I just fly away.

[Wickham]

Okay, wait, But I have more suggestions.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You fly off. No rule necessary. You're up and over the castle wall. You're looking at the courtyard. A ton of Taconus wagons in here. Taconus carriages. You see, there's people walking around. Go ahead, give me a stealth check and give me a perception check.

[Thimble]

Oh, okay. What is that? I don't add a 10 to this one? No, that's an 11.

[Teor]

Uh oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Uh oh.

[Wick]

First time.

[Thimble]

Should have let me stealth perception. 15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15. I'll remind you, you do have that.

[Thimble]

One heroic and a heroic dice. I'm gonna re roll that stealth.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Re roll that Stealth.

[Thimble]

That's a 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. You see, as you fly over. As you fly over, the wind kicks up. You smell honeysuckle and that little bit of firefly light from the grigs from and the black rabbits you hear on the distant wind. You're after doing something underhanded. Then keep under the hand of darkness. When you're covered in shadow. So cool. You look down and see in the castle, briskly walking towards these two men talking, is Univere. You see the woman, she has a black scarf up over the bridge of. So she's covering her tattoos here in town. But she walks up to her brother, who you can see is speaking kind of animatedly with this knight, you see on a 15. He gestures over to one of the wagons. You see, he's pointing at these big cellar doors that look like a sort of wine cellar in the base of the smaller keep, the one closer to the highway. You see that within that Univere comes up, says a couple things very briefly. You're far enough away that you can't exactly make out what they're saying at this distance, but you can see that there's a quick discussion. You see that Univere gestures to the town and you see that Docet's eyebrows go up and he looks distracted, clicking. He's thinking about something, nods. He points over at the Saramai knight, the sort of serpent shield knight. And you see he just makes a round up with his finger motion. He heads off to the central keep of the castle. As you see, Univere puts a cloak around herself and with a whoosh of the cloak is vanished. You see that? The guy in the courtyard says the first thing, says the first thing you can hear, which is he goes, men, to me. We leave tonight and heads into the smaller keep. The other one that Doset went to that has that wagon parked outside and those big cellar doors.

[Thimble]

Do I see the guard that came up with the scratch on his arm that got healed?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You don't see him.

[Thimble]

Okay, so they pointed to the cellar. I'm going to go back down and tell everyone what I saw.

[Wickham]

Okay, well, I'm very happy we didn't just go in there because they're everywhere and they would have seen us.

[Thimble]

And. Oh, and. And Lady Winiver. Univer.

[Wick]

Univer.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Univer.

[Thimble]

Yeah, Univere. Unibrow disappeared.

[Wick]

What, she just appeared?

[Thimble]

She's just gone. So she could be anywhere.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, God.

[Wick]

Okay, I listen, I'm Gonna do my best as octus if we need that. But I feel a little out of my depth.

[Thimble]

Could be a bad idea.

[Wick]

I mean, they don't like respect enough.

[Thimble]

As long as they're gone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait. If she's disappeared, you could be her.

[Teor]

No, you don't want that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait.

[Teor]

You don't want that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Smoke.

[Thimble]

It's true though.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You could be hurt.

[Wickham]

She's gone.

[Wick]

She's too well respected. And also she will see me.

[Thimble]

What she talks like.

[Wick]

She talks like this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She doesn't. She's a woman of few words. She's a woman of few words. No.

[Wick]

Cause she'll see me and then I'm immediately dead.

[Wickham]

She's not even here anymore.

[Teor]

Friends.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, you gotta do what did you.

[Thimble]

Absolutely can't.

[Announcer]

She's gone.

[Wickham]

She could be anywhere. She's gone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She's not gonna see you.

[Wick]

That's hell no from me, dog. I know that. You're my boss.

[Cadogan]

What if it's in order?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is it?

[Wickham]

I don't know yet. That felt itchy. Let's use the egg.

[Teor]

Let's use the egg.

[Thimble]

Yeah. Distill the egg.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Fog up the. The.

[Thimble]

The courtyard.

[Teor]

It either. It's got to do something.

[Thimble]

He's enemies of stealthy fog or some.

[Teor]

Let's do it. Let's do it around the world.

[Thimble]

We get over to the Stellar doors.

[Teor]

They're going tonight. We gotta get him.

[Thimble]

We gotta get him.

[Cadogan]

You think your brother's in that cellar for.

[Thimble]

Wait, how are we getting in.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If.

[Wickham]

We want to make a big cloud of smoke? He can just make a big cloud of smoke.

[Cadogan]

It's medium sized egg.

[Wickham]

Do we egg?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We don't even know what this does. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.

[Cadogan]

Egg.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Eggs.

[Wickham]

It just makes us stealthy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What if I. Oh, do you smash me?

[Thimble]

What if I do it before we go in? What if it makes like a cloud and then they have to open the doors and then we go in?

[Wickham]

I thought you were professional soldiers.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give us the egg. Give us the egg.

[Thimble]

Give us the egg. I'm go up and over and drop the egg.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Thimble]

Don't do it.

[Teor]

Use the egg on us.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I thought that makes a cloud. I think that we don't know, but.

[Teor]

We gotta do it on us.

[Wick]

I do remember him saying it makes.

[Wickham]

Us a fog around us though. Maybe that's what I mean.

[Thimble]

Okay, then let's use it on us. Let's use it on us.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love how scared you guys. I live, I live for how frightened you are.

[Teor]

Well, now they're leaving. Somebody knows we're in town. Like, they know something's happened.

[Wickham]

So let's use the egg and then just waltz in.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Maybe. Wal.

[Wickham]

All right. All right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Professionals.

[Wick]

Okay.

[Wickham]

Make yourself wiener.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Virtually.

[Wick]

I do it for a minute and then I go, okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You make yourself the scariest lady you've ever seen.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And then you have this blue egg here.

[Thimble]

It's really big. You use it. Tayor.

[Wick]

Are we going in together just to.

[Teor]

Talk it out again? Okay. Because it's all tactics. That's a giant ass. That's a T. Rex.

[Thimble]

There's an egg for you. It's a little egg for you.

[Teor]

Just to knock it out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's a robin's egg.

[Teor]

We're going into a castle with a shitload of people where my brother is in some room, probably in the cellar of which we do not know where.

[Thimble]

No, but they pointed towards the cellar.

[Teor]

And they are leaving tonight, which means.

[Thimble]

We gotta get him.

[Teor]

They could be on the road with him or less people in there.

[Thimble]

Or they could kill him before they leave.

[Teor]

Or they could kill him before they leave.

[Announcer]

Or why would they. Wait till.

[Cadogan]

Are we picturing. Are we opposite that cellar door? Like, do we have to cross the entire courtyard Courtyard to get there?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

To get to the other keep? Yes, you have to cross the courtyard.

[Thimble]

What if we go around and we get to the entrance closest to that?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, the entrance. There are entrances to the street on the other side of the keep. That is correct.

[Thimble]

So maybe we get closer to the cellar door and then we go in.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, let's do that.

[Teor]

And we use the extra and we use the egg.

[Wickham]

Those entrances are closed and locked, though.

[Teor]

Correct.

[Wickham]

This one's open, but we have to cross through a courtyard. The other ones are closed and locked, but we could try those.

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[Teor]

And just to say it, they're all super big. It's scary in there.

[Wick]

Still, if this goes wrong, we're so dead.

[Wickham]

We could create a distraction that draws many of them out here first.

[Thimble]

Yeah, like what?

[Teor]

That draws them out. The door that's closed.

[Wickham]

Unlocked.

[Teor]

We could create a distraction.

[Wickham]

I think they would run out. The door that's open. The front door.

[Teor]

I thought it was on the other side of the castle.

[Wickham]

If only we had a castle here that we could look at.

[Cadogan]

We literally just freed a castle, like yesterday.

[Teor]

We should be really good at this one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Seats.

[Teor]

Front door. Front door. We go to the main crate.

[Thimble]

Just do it.

[Teor]

All right.

[Wickham]

Do what?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are we.

[Wick]

Wait, are we with you guys or are we. Are we Optus and Wick? I don't know.

[Teor]

What do you want to be?

[Thimble]

What do you want to be?

[Cadogan]

Well, you already told yourself you're turning yourself into the world's famous lady.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see a lantern of a patrol coming around the corner.

[Teor]

Everybody gather clothes. Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Egg. The egg. The egg shatters, covered in blue light. All of you, look.

[Cadogan]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor's vanishing.

[Teor]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Kaddigan's vanishing. You're all van. Everyone's gone. You're gone. You look and just see a faint outline of your own hand. Even that's mostly invisible. All of you have gained the invisible condition.

[Cadogan]

Okay, let's go.

[Teor]

I was thinking. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I heard. I thought.

[Wickham]

I think it makes us invisible.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Who's feeling lucky? Raise your hand. Who's feeling lucky? Raise your hand. Sure. Great. Travis, I want you to roll. Travis, I need you to roll 2d4.

[Thimble]

You're lucky. Be lucky. Be lucky.

[Teor]

2D4.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You gonna roll 2d4?

[Thimble]

Give me another one.

[Cadogan]

I got these.

[Wick]

Really invisible.

[Wickham]

What?

[Thimble]

These are D4s. They're so pretty.

[Teor]

Okay. They're so weird. Oh, fuck a ass up.

[Thimble]

That is not lucky.

[Wick]

You have a heroic inspiration.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What did you roll?

[Teor]

A heroic inspiration.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This could be the number of guards that need to punch us in the butt. It's three out of a possible eight.

[Wickham]

That's good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, you are invisible. What do you do?

[Thimble]

We're going in as fast as we can. We get across the courtyard and try to go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Self elite.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that there are guards standing in the gatehouse. But the gates are wide open. Guards have about 10ft between each of them. There's two here. There's two.

[Teor]

Yeah, baby. Yeah. We're doing it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All right, everybody, go ahead and give me a stealth check with advantage.

[Thimble]

Guide yourself.

[Teor]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my God.

[Teor]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We're just going in. Just going in.

[Wickham]

Does any spell remove the invisible condition or is it an attack spell only?

[Thimble]

Oh, that's true. If you guide yourself, does it cancel the invisible.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Me? Oh, yes. So you don't cast a spell?

[Cadogan]

Well, obviously not.

[Wickham]

Do we know if casting a spell removes the invisible?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me Arcana. We'll call it arcana12.1. You rolled a nat one?

[Teor]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. This invisibility is. You believe that invisibility from a. This will invisibility last forever. In fact, your life may be ruined. You may be permanent invisible.

[Wickham]

So I got a 21 on stealth 21, 30.

[Wick]

23,020.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

19, 19. What do we get for stealth 24? 24. What do we get for stealth?

[Teor]

Natural 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Natural 20. So you guys full side shimmy. Silent as the fucking grave. You see the guard guard right next to you at one point, just stretches as he goes full party. I'm the only fucking guards who are going to miss the fucking party. As they suit in. You are in the courtyard. You begin to cross.

[Teor]

We should plan to take one of these carriages the fuck out of here if we are successful at getting out.

[Thimble]

Sure.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. You arrive.

[Thimble]

We can't see each other.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Thimble]

Can we all put a hand? I'm just gonna sit on Taylor's shoulder.

[Teor]

We're elephant walking.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna sit on Taylor's shoulder and whisper in his ear where the direction of the cellar is that I saw him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Thimble]

And then everybody can put a hand on the person in front of you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You guys, you guys walk across the courtyard.

[Wick]

I see holding hands.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You guys see that. You're like, carefully. You're not like dodging, but just kind of like other people are crossing and they don't see you, so you're like moving past. And again, are you touching any of.

[Wickham]

Us or are you just on your own? What are you touching any of us?

[Cadogan]

I'm not touching any of you motherfuckers.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You arrive. You arrive at the far keep at the door that you saw the knight Saramai walk into. You arrive at the door. It is closed. What do you do when you arrive at the closed door?

[Thimble]

What about the cellar door?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that there are heavy cellar doors. Those cellar doors are near carriages with horses and some drivers and other things like that around here.

[Wickham]

So we should go in this, not that door.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You watch Saramai walk up and open this door without using a key.

[Thimble]

Cool. Is anybody else opening the door around the door? Nope.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do you want to wait and see if someone opens it?

[Teor]

I don't think we have that much time.

[Thimble]

I don't know.

[Teor]

I don't know why I had to roll 2d4, but if it has anything to do with time, we're in trouble. We gotta go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Teor]

I don't know. Cause I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go grab the door. Yeah, you grab the door. Great. You grab the door. You open it. Go ahead and give me a stealth check straight because it's disadvantage on advantage.

[Teor]

20. Hey, no. 22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22. You open the door, door opens. No one notices anything. Maybe the wind blew it open. You guys go inside.

[Wickham]

I'm still holding.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Beautiful. So many candles. Candles lit in here. You get in, what do you do? You see a hallway? There's a staircase going up to your right. There's a small area. There's some tapestries on the wall in here.

[Teor]

Any guards in the hallway?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No guards in this hallway. You hear them elsewhere in the keep. But this is the one facing the courtyard. So it's all within the perimeter. Should all already be covered.

[Thimble]

We should get to an area that is in more shadow. Right. So that we can scout from the inside.

[Wickham]

We need to go down, don't we?

[Thimble]

I think so. Down into the sky.

[Wickham]

Is there any indication that those up stairs also go down?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, not that you would see.

[Thimble]

Do we see downstairs?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Maybe there's a trapdoor or something. Do you see downstairs? Give me an investigation check. Look for trapdoors.

[Wickham]

Trapdoors. I'm gonna look too. I'm looking for a trapdoor door.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. Trap doors.

[Thimble]

16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16. Okay. You begin to scoot through on a 16, do you guys. On a 16, are you. You're just looking for any way down?

[Wickham]

Yes.

[Thimble]

Duet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're just gonna roll a straight luck check.

[Teor]

Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Okay. All right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're gonna call this. This is the smaller of the two keeps. You're looking for any way down. Down. I'm going to say that you want a 13 or higher. 16.

[Teor]

It makes my thighs hurt.

[Wickham]

What's the soul?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What did you roll for your face in a row?

[Wickham]

Mine was actually pretty good too. It was 17.

[Thimble]

Nice.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You get down here, you're searching. As you arrive down here, your invisibility fades. And as the invisibility fades, you look around. Narrow area. There's a small well. Shit. Hold on. Why don't I get it?

[Teor]

Oh, why don't I get it? Why don't I get it? He's going to get it. He's getting the master.

[Wickham]

Check out the crit roll store.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The.

[Wickham]

There's lots of stuff there, Dice. Hey, that new thing that Laura's wearing right there is available to purchase.

[Thimble]

Is it good?

[Teor]

Oh, God, Oh, God, Oh, God. It's covered.

[Announcer]

It's covered.

[Teor]

Look out.

[Wickham]

Really?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's fine.

[Teor]

We are so behind enemy territory with no plan.

[Wickham]

You're a soldier. I was trying to plan.

[Wick]

We're so strong.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, I'm going to need marching order for how you're getting. Come down here, guys.

[Thimble]

I would fly out in front.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Thimble, you're out in front.

[Wickham]

Me and Tyranny in the back. Yeah, I'm holding her hand, so maybe she would. Are you in very back or in front of me?

[Teor]

You're in front of me.

[Wick]

I'm in front of you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Yeah, Great.

[Wickham]

I'm still holding her hand.

[Wick]

Even though we're not just iron. Iron.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Grand. So, Thimble followed by Cadogan or followed by.

[Teor]

Me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. Yeah. Thimble, fly down. You see as you guys get down here and come out of invisibility right down here. As you do so. It is pitch black. There are no candles. This is a wine cellar. It's not been decorated. You see that there? Although you can smell Teor, fresh torch oil pooled on the ground near askance. You think someone came down here and removed a torch off the wall?

[Teor]

Got it. I've got 60ft of darkvision and you naturally give off some light.

[Thimble]

I can give off, but by choice.

[Wick]

I've got dark vision.

[Thimble]

I can turn it off if I want.

[Wickham]

Do you want me to turn off?

[Thimble]

Especially in this area?

[Teor]

Not yet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do you have darkvision or no?

[Thimble]

I do not have dark vision.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. So you can cast light if you need to. So Teor, you and tyranny are the ones that you get down here. Your eyes, you do that cat reflective thing. Tyranny. You're good in the dark down here. Both of you look ahead. No one else can see this. You're just stepping down into the darkness. But tyranny and terror, you perceive a huge ale cask down here. Smaller firkins that are here to basically fill up from the larger barrel.

[Wickham]

Is that a pubic wig? Is that what a mercury?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. A firkin is for beast folk that want to be perceived as hairless.

[Teor]

That was too fast.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Too fast.

[Cadogan]

That is a specialty shirt.

[Teor]

Wow.

[Thimble]

If you would have rolled a natural 20, you would have found A store for that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So do you guys continue into the room?

[Teor]

Yes.

[Thimble]

Can we in this pitch blackness hear any voices beyond in the darkness?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a perception.

[Teor]

Yeah. I think Thimble and I would know that we can move either by gestures or very slight whispers to keep her light off. But I would also use. I would just try and move around the doorway to peer within that 60ft of that vision before anybody else sort of entered that fatal funnel.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Teyor, you take the lead, peering. Are you close to the corner here or further back?

[Teor]

I would stay further back.

[Thimble]

I'm going to sit on Teor's shoulder. So I'm not making any wing noise.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm not making any wing noise moving this. You get down, you see empty chamber. Taking another turn down there as you move through. I will also ask this one, if you're taking your time, you get into this chamber, do you want to take a moment to sit in silence and try to make a perception check? Okay.

[Wickham]

I'm going to activate my innate sorcery, by the way, just to power myself.

[Wick]

Mage armor.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Mage armor refreshes. Yeah. Everyone gets loaded up. Go ahead, give me a perception check. As you take a moment here to listen.

[Thimble]

21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You hear a clanking of a cage. Distantly around the corner, you hear a large cage clanking, but it's more muffled. There's some amount of distance to it, but you can't hear any speaking. But there's definitely a loud of bars and iron.

[Thimble]

It could be him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Taking a moment as you do to hear carefully. I'm gonna ask for a risk roll. Just want Laura, you to roll a D8 for me. You just wanna roll. You don't even have to roll high. You just don't wanna get a 1.

[Thimble]

8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

8. Great. You hear the noise of merriment and partying overhead. And the more to the point, it looks like the Taconis activity of getting ready is staying outside with their characters. You don't hear anyone coming down the stairs after you right now.

[Teor]

This time I actually am gonna go over to Wick and I'm gonna put my paw up against his chest and my claws will come out a little bit and just touch his chest and you'll hear me growl. And I will for real cast shield of faith on him, which gives a 2 to your AC.

[Wickham]

Amazing as you do that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor Wick had asked you before if you had sworn an oath. He had asked you about the fact that you wield the light. It's a question that, that you've deflected in your life. Even before meeting Wick many times, hoping against hope that you can save your brother. You've kept it so far from your Mind's Eye, where your power comes from. In this moment, as you go to truly shield him, you realize you. You cannot use the fog of war. You cannot use the need of battle to disguise the fact that in this moment, you are casting magic as Wick meets your eyes, as you protect him in this way with that same question he asked you before. Of what are you? Where does this come from? What does he see on your face?

[Teor]

I think as my hand reaches out and touches his chest. In the darkness, the saucer like eyes of the lion flash and you'll see a ripple in my eyes. But there's something in that flash that you can't quite see.

[Wickham]

A shape, a being.

[Teor]

But you feel it.

[Wickham]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There is something beyond what can be named here that you see Wick. You don't know what Teor believes, but something is being called on here. You wonder if Teor even knows what it is himself. You feel protection. This aegis of powerful magic that to you feels celestial. But maybe that's just your name for it. Protected magic cast. You've heard that noise. You hear no one behind you. Do you continue forward?

[Teor]

Yeah. I would move into the hallway.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All right. Rounding the corner here where you have much less room to navigate.

[Thimble]

I check for traps in this area, but can't see anything.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Moving further in. Teor. You guys arrive in this room fimble. Something's not adding up. You are.

[Thimble]

I heard it. I'm going to just very faintly start to flutter my wings so the light within me glows a little tiny bit. Just so dim. But enough that we've been the pitch black to see a little bit more.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You look a few small items in a cupboard down here. They honestly look more like the tools of a cellar keeper. Looks more like this is the small work area of someone who's tending to the barrels and things down here.

[Thimble]

I'm going to go over the walls and try to find anything because I know we heard that cage rattling.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me investigation.

[Thimble]

Sorry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Were you gonna do something? I was, but.

[Cadogan]

That's okay, Goofy.

[Wickham]

What are you gonna do?

[Teor]

I'll help.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll help.

[Cadogan]

This is a cellar with food in it?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Cadogan]

Are there rats down here?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a survival or animal handling and you can do so with me.

[Thimble]

If he's helping me, then I roll the bandage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, you do.

[Cadogan]

That's pretty good.

[Thimble]

Survival perception or investigation.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me investigation. 21 20. 21.

[Cadogan]

My survival would be 23. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

23 survival, yeah. Hell, yeah. On a 21. On a 21 thimble, you go over and running your hand along the stone wall, you look and you see it. There's a single masonry stone down here that looks smooth and almost imperceptibly, a little bit more polished fingertips have a natural oil to them that over many years of use, will leave a bit of a sheen. When a stone and a wall stands out as special Cadigan. On a 23, you do see a rat slink out from behind one of these. Seeing Wulfric, it goes up to its little height, looking up at you in this moment as you make contact with it. What do you do in this moment as the rat? You capture the attention of this little creature that fears for its life.

[Cadogan]

Small brain, heavy instincts, and a rat. I would cast, speak with animals and see if there's a sense of fear or safety or direction in that space. Cause the one thing I know is rats are scared of cats.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Mm. The rat looks up at you as you get primal with it. Get down. You see, it looks up and it says, are you gonna kill me? No.

[Cadogan]

No, I won't kill you.

[Teor]

Friend.

[Cadogan]

Yeah, friend. Where'd you come from?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Castle deep in the dark caves and cellars.

[Cadogan]

Is it dark in here or is it somewhat lit?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's a little bit lit. Yeah.

[Cadogan]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. You see that? The rat looks at you and says, it's not safe down here. Many have gone through the door. They don't come back.

[Cadogan]

What door is that where you came from? I'm gonna say that to the rat. And then you answer, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, the rat looks at you and goes.

[Thimble]

They go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They don't die. They don't come.

[Cadogan]

Go on. There's some ale down the way.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see it looks and says, I won't come back here. Not safe. It's not right. My family, my friends, they go in, they die, but they don't stink. They vanish, but they don't rot. I would smell if they had. I can't smell them anymore. And you see the rat slinks off down into the shadows.

[Announcer]

Scary.

[Thimble]

That doesn't sound like that. Sounds like nefarious spirits. Well, maybe they took him down here. Maybe they're doing experiments on him. We gotta get him out.

[Teor]

Gotta go.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna rear back and then fly forward with my feet and try to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stomp on the double foot, Kick the stone as you do, you fly into it, And a door appears. And as it does. Hold on one second. I'M so nervous.

[Teor]

We didn't check for traps.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Thimble]

But now I have a little light. I can do that before we head down.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

More.

[Teor]

He's going to get more.

[Cadogan]

Oh, yeah. That's just a foyer.

[Teor]

Got two tailors up in a, like, tower eating wine and cheese.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sid.

[Thimble]

You mean, he's like.

[Teor]

Yes, Sid.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, me, I'm just like an absolute savage.

[Thimble]

Don't say that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's so good.

[Wick]

It's so dumb.

[Thimble]

You did it on purpose.

[Wickham]

Subscribe to Beacon TV and thumb. Well, we talk about after the camels stop rolling.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go here. We're going to wheel it around. Yeah. Till that connects. Oh, wow.

[Thimble]

Goodness. What is happening? Oh, it's.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, yeah. Oh, boy.

[Wickham]

Seeing this hallway open up. And you're going to start checking for traps and things. As she's checking for traps and stuff, I'm going to turn around behind us in that threshold that we just sort of walked through that narrow hallway. I'm going to cast alarm. Okay.

[Teor]

Oh, yes. Good, good, good, good, good.

[Wickham]

As a mental alarm. If anyone comes down that hallway, I'll be notified.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yes.

[Teor]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sick. Incredible.

[Wickham]

DM question. It says I cast it as a ritual. Does that take away a spell slot.

[Teor]

Or you do it.

[Thimble]

It takes 10 minutes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It takes 10 minutes.

[Wickham]

Well, this says one minute. Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, ritual.

[Wickham]

Oh, this. So if I cast it as a.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ritual, it takes 10 minutes.

[Wickham]

If I just cast it as an action, it takes one minute.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, I'll do that. Great. So while you guys are talking to the rat, you're taking care to alarm this area back here. As the door opens, I am going to. I don't think you guys can make a stealth here. There's no way for you to adjust how loud this door is. So this is going to be open perception check for anybody.

[Teor]

For whatever lays within.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

For whatever lays within.

[Thimble]

What are we hoping for here?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Something low you're hoping for. I think you guys are gonna need a seven or lower.

[Thimble]

Oh, jeez Louise.

[Teor]

God, he's being super fair and I hate it.

[Thimble]

Seven or lower. We need.

[Wickham]

We want seven or lower.

[Cadogan]

This is for the perception of the.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Whatever is in there. Holy. My goodness gracious.

[Wickham]

18.

[Cadogan]

We just woke up the entire neighborhood.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Don't worry, everyone.

[Wickham]

No one will come behind us without us knowing. Yes. We are totally safe down here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

From down the hallway, you hear. You hear a voice call out and say, who goes there?

[Thimble]

You.

[Wickham]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Change your shit.

[Wickham]

Become something.

[Teor]

This is your moment. This is your moment.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Teor]

Does it change your voice, too?

[Wickham]

It doesn't change your voice.

[Thimble]

Hello.

[Wick]

It's me, Octist Conus. I've lost my fox and I walk ahead.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. So you leave everybody else here.

[Wickham]

I've lost my fox. Wheelie. This is how I talk.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Tyranny. You begin to walk ahead. You hear a voice say my lord Taconis.

[Teor]

I would follow him behind you just hood down. Coming in. And if there's nobody in that room, I would find a crowd.

[Thimble]

I would be flying right behind her so that I wasn't visible as she walked forward.

[Teor]

But like a guard would.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right?

[Wick]

Yeah. And you guys are hanging back and are in this room.

[Wickham]

I'm still casting alarm takes a minute.

[Wick]

But you're in this room still.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Uh huh. Hello.

[Wick]

I'm sorry to bother you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my voice calls from farther away. I'm gonna ask how deep into the space you walk. Taeyor. You follow. Tyranny disguises octaves here. Does everybody else follow to this distance? To this area here? Yeah.

[Wickham]

Maybe we should stay within 30ft for no good reason.

[Teor]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. So tyranny. You keep walking. Everybody else is following after.

[Teor]

I. I would. I would come in here and then I would put my butt in a corner. If there's nobody else in here, maybe. Maybe in here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right in here.

[Wick]

Can I lure him into you snapping his.

[Cadogan]

You can hang back as far as you want to.

[Wickham]

Hang back.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Cadogan]

I'll be your bodyguard.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna be in the.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh my God.

[Teor]

Wow.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You have vanished. Thimble. You're hiding out in here.

[Wickham]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a stealth check as well, do I world.

[Thimble]

Never mind. What's in the cage records 2020.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In the cage. You look in there, see there's some blood on the ground and some scraps of black fur. No, just the fur in the blood. That's it. Where's my brother?

[Thimble]

It's dressed up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wulfric. Wulfric is behind. Where's Wulfric?

[Cadogan]

Yeah, we've got.

[Teor]

We've got.

[Cadogan]

We've got wick sandwich.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. Wick sandwich.

[Cadogan]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wulfric. In the. In the. In the. In the rear here. Tyranny. The masonry gives way to raw cavern. Oh, cold stone. As you continue, you see a voice. Say my lord Tarkonis. Were you. Did the lady Univere call for you?

[Wick]

No, no, I just. I lost pin. My fox. And I thought maybe he ran down here. He's not here. You didn't see him?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You walk in here as you do. Give me deception with disadvantage.

[Wickham]

It's disadvantage. Wait, wait, wait, wait. She's too far away from me. Yeah, I Can't negate it.

[Teor]

She's got this. With nine months in the realm, she's got this 19.

[Wick]

15.

[Thimble]

Plus.

[Wick]

What is deception? Yeah, plus seven.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Wickham]

22.

[Cadogan]

Rolling against it.

[Thimble]

Well, no, he rolled really well. That's a 20. Did you roll a natural 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Tyranny. You turn the corner.

[Thimble]

Uh oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With more than you can count. In the dark of Taconis, guardsmen down here in the shadows, a strange stone slab in the cavern. You see the knight of House Saramai. His eyes, abilious green slitted, pupils like a serpent cage clanked open as he stands here in this room. You enter as he says, my lord, so good to see you. And yanks up on a chain. As a lizard on a chain, eight legs, a horn of stone coming out of its nostrils. Looks up at you as its eyes begin to glow. I'm going to need a constitution saving throw for me.

[Wickham]

You got this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Wick]

15. That would be so sick if I wasn't so afraid. That lizard sounds so cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You turn the corner. A knight of House Saramai looks at you, smiling and says, if you were Octystechnis, you'd already be dead. And you see, he yanks up the lizard, looks at you, and you feel yourself begin to turn to stone. No, no, no, no. And that's all for this episode. A critical role. No. You threw me in the fucking pit.

[Wickham]

You have like pet basilisks or something?

[Teor]

Oh, no, that's okay.

[Wickham]

One of us has got a greater restoration.

[Wick]

I am objectively the newest to Dungeons and Dragons here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, this is the dungeons part. Dungeons. You got it.

[Teor]

Oh, boy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What the hell? Boy, I'm shaking.

[Wickham]

I'm so scared.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, no. I'm starting to turn. Knocked fucking hard. Starting to turn.

[Thimble]

She might be able to shake it off.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Might be able to shake it off.

[Wick]

It's just a little boner. I'm just a rock hard.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Rock hard. Right now.

[Wickham]

You have a lady bone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I have.

[Wick]

No, I'm Optus.

[Teor]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, wow, you guys.

[Teor]

We got some thinking to do. We got some thinking to do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I know it's gonna be a long week. Oh, I guess when we come back, we'll roll. Initiative.

[Teor]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How about it, gang? Here we go. What a joy. What a joy. Well, tyranny here in the heart of Castle Dhalani, having made your way all the way here to find. To find Thalcidimir pride, sire. And we'll see if you are capable of saving him.

[Wickham]

Wait, did she see him yet?

[Thimble]

She didn't see.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's hard to to see with those glowing reptilian eyes looking at you.

[Wick]

Am I?

[Teor]

Did he turn me back? More guards than we can count.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

More guards than you can count in the game.

[Thimble]

Is that what you roll? What did you roll for?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's a weapon.

[Lowe's Announcer]

Shield.

[Thimble]

What was that that you rolled for?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I know.

[Teor]

Save it, Sarah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Now tell us.

[Teor]

We gotta do it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, all I'll say is this is a Thursday. Thanks for listening to this episode of Critical Role. If you're enjoying this story, consider leaving a review on your podcast platform of choice. We're always looking for new critters to share our adventures with, and your review may help a new batch of wayward souls find their way to Ahriman, Exandria and beyond. Or if you want to hear what the cast discussed after the episode, head to Beacon TV and check out our exclusive show Critical Role Cooldown. You'll be right there at the table immediately after we say, is it Thursday yet? And experience our cast's post show reaction. We'll see you next time.

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