Where do the remaining heroes reunite?

Beneath the silence of St. Louis Cemetery.

What happened at The Last Garden six months earlier?

A daring rescue ended in tragedy, leaving one of their own behind.

What difficult themes are mentioned in the content warning?

Political imprisonment, systemic oppression and persecution of a race of people, concentration camps, and torture.

Saving Throw Society | Barrier Cities: New Orleans - Episode 16: Boxers Not Briefs - Saving Throw Society

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Welcome to Saving Throw Society as we present Barrier Cities New Orleans. Lasez la bontor roulette. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the jazz.

I love you New Orleans no longer sleeps. Under the newly enacted Arcane Security Act, the city has been divided into districts, each governed by checkpoints, patrols, and ever-present blue-glow of surveillance wards. A strict curfew begins at sundown. Once the street lamps flicker on, citizens are expected indoors. Windows shuttered and doors locked. Those caught outside without a government-issued pass are detained for questioning. Those who cannot produce proper identification are detained for longer.

And the laws are particularly unforgiving towards the Fae. Fae citizens are now required to carry identification at all times with nationalized Fae subjected to mandatory registration, magical tracking, and routine inspections. Certain professions have been closed to them. Travel between districts requires authorization. Gatherings of more than a few Fae are prohibited and even with humans close, Fae associations have found themselves placed under suspicion. The language of the law remains clinical.

Relocation. Containment. Public safety. Everyone in New Orleans knows what the words actually mean. Jazz has established holding facilities throughout the city. Some occupy converted warehouses, others have been constructed behind hastily erected walls of iron, concrete, and enchanted glass. Officially, these are arcane relocation centers, temporary facilities intended to house Fae populations until the conflict is resolved. But the signs outside tell a different story. The fences are reinforced, the gates are warded, and the facilities are built to last.

Perhaps the most infamous of these camps sits on the outskirts of the Ninth Ward, where an An abandoned industrial complex has been transformed into a sprawling maze of razor wire, floodlights, watchtowers, and glowing arcane barriers. Jazz calls it the Glomhold Relocation Center, but the prisoners have another name for it. The Last Garden. From the outside, Glomhold looks almost ordinary. Collection of old warehouses surrounded by chain link fencing and concrete barricades, Beneath the floodlights, the walls shimmer with layers of protective enchantments designed specifically to prevent fey magic from functioning.

The grounds are divided into a number of sectors, with different fey courts and species separated from one another. There are no clocks inside the last garden. There are no mirrors. There are no windows. And according to the official relocation order, there is no scheduled date for anyone to leave. The government exists, the camp exists to protect New Orleans. The people inside have begun to wonder exactly who it is protecting them from, and more importantly, what happens when the Fae outside the walls come looking for them.

The Last Garden, a name no one was supposed to remember. Six months before the present day, the rain came sideways. Ensemble, you are crouched in the mud beneath the shadow of a drainage culvert, watching the camp through sheets of water. Beyond the fence, hundreds of Fae sit huddled beneath tarps. Some have antlers, some have wings folded against their backs. Others look almost entirely human save for the faint glow beneath their skin. All of them are silent. Onyx you stand next to hit them with Chomp.

Ensemble you had sent Barton and Bartleby but they were taking suspiciously longer than usual to get back out. It's taking too long. Another patrol goes by. Time ticks. They should be back by now. What do you do? I'm gonna tell everyone to watch my body. I'm gonna leave my body here real quick. I'll be right back. I'm gonna go look for them. And then I, in my little ball form, head in, see if I can find them. For 30 seconds, everything goes perfectly. The second you pass the barricades into the camp, you feel a jolt and schism echo through your consciousness.

you are pure magic entering a place where magic is not permitted through wards through glyphs through the mechanics of the camp I need you to make a constitution saving throw the 19 on the die that's a 25 you are able to maintain your form But a pulse of light zeroes in on you, detecting magic. Floodlight snaps to you from all directions. Alarms start going off. You hear people shouting intruders. The night explodes. Alarms are streaking. Suppression pylons flare to life. By even the camp in sickly blue light, hangmen start pouring from the guard station's black coats whipping in the rain as their duplicate bodies glimmer with dead white eyes.

The prisoners are all looking towards the direction of a glowing sphere of light. Onyx and Chomp, what do you do? How far away did Ensemble get? Like, do we see all that shit happen? Yes. And are we with the rest of the gang as well? No, this is Ensemble's band of free fighters. That's the gang I was referring to. Yes, you are with the rest of the gang. Okay. Can Ensemble make his way back to us?

Ensemble, I need you to make, if you want to escape before anything happens, right now every light, every floodlight, every magic detecting ward is pointed at your body and can sense you. so do you have any way to dissuade it from happening could I perhaps cast a dimension door to get out of there I will need a DC 20 arcana check to be able to cast a spell inside the camp DC 20 let's see okay I need a roll of 15 I did not roll a 15 or a 13, so... 18. You reach for the magic to try to cast Dimension Door and feel almost as if something is stopping any pulse of spell work.

Hmm. Well, that's not ideal. Alright, so if he's stuck there... Are we able to discern that he's stuck and can't get... Like, can't get back to us? make a perception check I'm great at that actually I'm not that bad at that but when you roll a 4 it's a 9 onyx can also make a perception check yeah I got you sorry 19

You see static flickering around Ensemble as if something is holding their body in place.

Okay. Almost like a containment field. What the fuck is going on? Why is he just standing there? That is a great question and really makes me wish I had a big net to swoop them up. But I don't think that's going to work.

Um.

So even if we use magic of any kind, we're probably going to get the... We're probably going to draw attention to ourselves. If the magic even works. If it works. Okay. Right now, you are outside of the camp. Ensemble's inside. I am going to take a mechanic from Orbital Blues, and I'm going to set a timer, because all the time you guys are discussing this, hangmen are closing in on Ensemble. All right. Well, if I see that he's stuck, and people are actively running towards him.

Fuck this. Onyx. Hold this.

and i'm gonna give you my bag but take my axe out and just book it towards him and once i get to him i'm gonna rage and like get interpose myself in between him and everyone coming and just try to like push him out and like get him the out of there so just for this oh that's cool if this rage thing works. A beam of brilliant light lances from my chest in a line 5 foot wide and 60 feet long. I roll a number of d8s equal to my rage damage. Each creature in the line must succeed in a constitution shaving throw or take radiant damage equal to the total and be blinded until the start of their next turn.

Do you rage once you're inside the camp or outside of the camp? I said I did it once I got in between to try to scare them off. Roll the damage. uh fuck what's my rage damage I think it's two so two d8s those are d10s I haven't played this game in a little while 8 you take 8 well they I rolled 8 damage no No. No. You take 8 damage as the beam implodes on yourself because it cannot exit your body. Oh. Rude. Okay.

And I need you to make a constitution saving throw with disadvantage. Disadvantage.

10. So I'm gonna roll some dice because you have magic that is trying to escape your body building up inside of it that can't escape. Oh boy. It's like wild magic blue balls.

Oh god, once you get out of the camp, you're just gonna explode and it's gonna feel so good. You're also gonna die. Yuck. So, this is going to be slightly different because most of your hit points come from the ability to take extraneous damage to your tough exterior of your body. This is damage happening to your internal organs. What is your normal hit point max? 131. Damn. Okay, for the purposes of right now, we are treating the hit point max that this is taking damage away from as half of that.

Okay. So, 65 and a half? 65, we'll call it 65. I have just rolled 68 damage. Ow. Can you feel the shockwave of explosive, and that this wasn't going to happen except that's what you rolled for your rage. And it physically can't exit your body as it starts to shred apart your organs. Dope. So Chomp, you enter the camp. You cause a scene. You rage and a flashing blinding beam of light centers on yourself, causing a flashbang effect. When it dissipates, there is a break in the wards surrounding Ensemble.

Ensemble, you have the opportunity to run or stay. It's my plan the whole time.

You also notice that Chomp is shitting blood. It's quite a sight. Get myself out or get Chomp out. Can you get Chomp out while you're in your incorporeal form? Oh, you make a good point. I was also trying to push you away and get you out so you would know that. True. I guess I will try and make it through the break in the barrier.

Roll stealth. Okay.

Uh-oh. Let's see, what's my stealth? A 13. You start moving and think you are free. Chomp's body is laying there, quickly being surrounded by hangmen. You are almost out of the camp and you hear a familiar whistle.

I don't want to hear a whistle.

No, no, no. I don't think you're going anywhere.

But it's so close. Make a constitution saving throw. Or actually, this is a charisma. Make a charisma saving throw. Aristhma. Okay.

Oh. Can that be with advantage? Perhaps? For- Explain why you have advantage. Umm... Because of Katrina. She's raised hand. Yes, because of Katrina's- Because of Katrina's raised hand.

Katrina, I'll call on- Katrina, what do you have to say in the classroom? Sorry. Umm... Is he close enough to get my plus four on saves because of my aura. Would you have been moving towards them while this was happening? I'm not going through the barrier, but I am still like on the outside. I just don't know how close he is since, sorry. How close Ensemble is. Uh, 30.

I'm gonna roll a d20. We want to get above a five.

A six. Let's go! I rolled a six. Yes! You are close enough to get the plus four from... ...Katri- from Onyx's aura. So then with the plus four, that brings me from a natural one to a 12. From a natural one?! Yeah. Natural one's a natural one, dude. I know!

Oh no... So wait, we never resolved... Oh yeah, do I get my raised hand advantage? Oh nooo...

He has advantage because Chomp gave his last breath to get him the fuck out. There's the big distraction of that 8 foot tall, 15 foot long crocodile shitting blood everywhere. One of my team members is there, right? They could give me the help action perhaps. Which team member? You tell me because Bartleby are not anywhere around that you can see. Uh... Oh, I can't remember names, I gotta find the... What are these, what are these, uh, these miscellaneous party members doing as Chomp is dying and Ensemble is...

Bartleby are somewhere in the camp and we have them returned. So we don't know where they are. What about Zazzle the Pixie? Or Zzzz? Zzzz? Zzzz? Zzzz? Zzzz? Or Zayzl? See, I said it wrong. So fun fact, Rowan decided to make up a whole bunch of fucking NPCs that I have to voice. I did it so that you would have to voice them. Rowan wasn't happy with us so he got himself a new gang. It's not true. This is just addition to our gang. It's also not untrue. No, it's just, I'm bringing, this is, I'm growing our group.

So, Zayzl. I'm gonna say that you did not notice that Zezel followed you into the camp and is close by. Zezel is going to illuminate herself and start flying around the camp trying to distract whoever's there. She doesn't really know much about the Frenchman. Zezel is zipping around, flying around, flitting around uh that's gonna give you the help action let's go all right 17. that's what the most part mm-hmm that succeeds the DC to not be incapacitated you are still going to take damage okay which this is going based off your hit points in just ball form not ensemble's body okay

you take 19 points of psychic damage oh that can't be good man it smells like crispy gator and crispy balls out here Gotta get those crispy balls.

What a way to start chapter two. Crispy balls? Uh, everyone dying is more what I was going for. Well, that's true. I'm fine. Not Onyx. She hasn't even entered. I'm holding everybody's stuff. The prison area. So glad Onyx came to be the pack mule. That's what I'm here for. So Your HPX is equal to your level Plus your proficiency bonus plus your charisma modifier 13 plus your charisma modifier Charisma is plus 3 So 16 You are out You are at 0 That's rough What happens when the ball Of light that is Ensemble gets knocked unconscious It's not good I'll tell you that It's not good Alright, well...

What does happen, Samson? Hmm? You must find a new suitable inanimate object within an hour of passing out of your object. So basically, if you remain at zero for an hour or more, you will cease to exist in the entire universe. I see. I see. Gotta get back to my armor ASAP. So, hear me out. Chomp is pretty lifeless right now. Zombie chomp.

Can I, if I see them go down, can I just, like, pick up the suit of armor and fucking chuck it over the gate, like, on top of them? I love that. And like that kinda negates what's going on. They still have to come back up to at least one hit point to be able to enter their new Okay. How much damage does a ball of light take when a bunch of metal instruments hit? My question is exactly. Probably far too much. Are you Onyx or Nyx right now? now. I'm Onyx, so does my paladin hoopla, whatever, does that also get negated within the barrier?

Like if I were to stick my little phalanges through the gate to give him a little finger touch, is that- Well he's out of the barrier now, right? Like I got him, pushed him out, broke that part, got him out so where he is magic technically would work in theory they are i'm sorry okay

so in theory if she fingered his ball we're good oh man a lot of regret and things i say only if it's vigorous yuck What if she fingered Chomp as well? Okay. Sam. Yes? To get to where Ensemble is, do I have to enter the barrier? No. Okay. So I'm going to go and use Spare the Dying on Ensemble. Okay. They still can't enter a body until they're above one hit point. Okay. How does spare the dying work if they have to be in a physical body where they dissipate? Spare the dying doesn't work on Rosh Humble's ball form.

Okay, hold on. I was worried that that was going to be a thing. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so. What's your armor class, Onix? Why do you want to know that? Do I? Why? Just curious. Just want to know. Why do you need to know? She doesn't finish her turn yet, okay? I don't think I want to tell you don't trust you okay? Okay, you're a bitch

Speaking of being a bitch. What's the timer at? Oh? Timers over already. Oh

18 points of piercing damage is a shotgun blasts into your shoulder Okay, how far away from me are they, first of all, before you get all sassy with me? 50 feet. Dear bitch. Okay. The shotgun doesn't have to be close. Gah. Okay, so you shouldn't be that accurate with a shotgun at 50 feet. On the bright side, you take significantly less damage. It's a spray, so you only got a couple of sprays into you. Little pellets. Well, I'm so if your body something I can put my digits on or do they just go through Shotgun hit in a second Digits or something special because of your paladin powers so go ahead and make actually you know what?

Channel divinity or whatever is that is that the powder is a cleric?

Sanctuary, but what I wanted to do your class features class I don't know. Channel Divinity is Cleric, but I think Paladin's, it's called something similar. Divine Sense. Yes. Yes. So one of your uses of Divine Sense.

Yeah, so... This would allow you to use Lay on Hands on Ensemble. Use one of your uses of Divine Sense. Okay, that's what I want to do. I want to do one of my uses of Divine Sense, and then I want to get Ensemble back up to 10 hit points. Wait, I can do 10 now, right?

You can do five hit points for every level of Paladin you are. So you can do 45 hit points. Okay. I will do 10 hit points for right now to just get them back up. Gotcha. Ensemble, you're up. You can immediately possess... Is it the suit of armor from the Feywilds or is it the instruments? Oh, it's my instrument. Instruments, okay. Yeah. You immediately possess the instruments. Yeah, I freaking chucked that tuba. The first thing you see Upon waking Ensemble Is that Chomp's body is no longer Where it landed And that you don't see where it is Rude And there's a strail of brown and red blood Is brown shit?

Yes Chomp shit himself Samson, let's be real. We all shit ourselves when we die. I need to roll for that.

That's right. Eric is the new Joe. Eric is the new Joe of this season. Zip, can you run around and see if you can find Chomp? Where did he go? You don't have to go inside. Just go around the perimeter and see if you can find him. I bet or could I have seen what happened to chomp you were paying attention on sample I'm also getting shot with the shotgun. I feel like

I don't know why you hate us this season god. I don't hate you you guys wrote the backstories

So you guys zip to zip to purely zip around Literally boss I'll get around I'm going super fast and zips around, sort of road-runnering around the facility, lands back about ten seconds later. Nothing to see here, boss, I don't know where he went, I don't know where he went, I don't know where he went! How much coffee did Zip have? Zip had too much W. Is Zip a trucker from Arkansas? Zip is a quickling. Zip is a quickling. So yes, a trucker from Arkansas. Would you say Zip is more Alvin, Simon, or Theodore, if you had to pick a chipmunk?

Alvin. For sure. That tracks. Yeah. What's the plan, Ensemble, as you come back up? Barton and Bartleby are still not back. Hmm. Oh, that makes things worse, actually. I forgot about that. It makes things really hard. It sure does. I think... I gotta make the hard decision and leave the twins behind. I think they... I'm gonna leave Zip and Zazel actually to see if they can... get the job done once everything settles down. And I think... And just like that, I got rid of all the stupid NPCs that were unmade!

You're welcome.

Uh... And then maybe Onyx and I should go looking for it. will be back. They are important to the story that is going to happen. In all seriousness, they will be back. Maybe, Onix, do you want to go look for Chomp? Maybe go back to his place, see if he ran there or something? Yeah. I still have Chomp's bag with me, so he's got to be somewhere. He's very large. Where could he go? I don't know. I'm not sure. I guess we should head back to his house and see if he's there. Okay. So I guess we'll head back.

We are going to close out on that scene. Chomp. Yes. You slowly regain consciousness. You are strapped to an examining table. Lights are shining down on you. Tools line tables next to you. The Frenchman stands over you. Where the fuck am I? Who? I know you. You're the asshole from the bar. I bet you're in your ass! Look I forgot about that! You are so curious to me. What is you, you gator? What is you? Both are selling out my gator. They can't leave them, young idiot. I think, I think we're gonna cut you open you and see what your insides look like a little bit.

Chomp, you remain contained in the last garden.

Experimented on, tortured. I need you to roll...

six constitution saves. Tell me each one as you roll it. You treat me so well, Sam.

That's a natural 20 for 27. One month passes and you do not tell the syndicate anything about your... Roll the next. I don't like you. I don't like you. Two. Uh, twenty-three. Two months pass and you do not tell the Syndicate anything about your group. Ten. You hold out for three months of torture, interrogation, mind probing, hangman possession. You hold out through it all. You're an asshole.

It is only when they put you in a similar chamber that existed in their headquarters where Ensemble first escaped from. Demonia is tethered to a device that was once called cacophony. You feel sonorous waves pulse through your body. You feel your insides start to shred further. You are not fully healed from the magic that wracked your body.

You feel animal instinct take over in your fight to survive anything to make it stop. It is an interesting fact that animals are much more tuned to sound than humans and as ultrasonic pulses pass through your body it feels like razors scraping away layers of your being until you get to a point where you beg for it to stop and you are willing to speak. Now my question to you is do you tell them about Ensemble's group or do you tell them about your whole party? And here's my question to you. Can I Princess Leia this shit and tell them A third location where we might have been once but are no longer Which location?

The swamp where Like my island We did hang out there Make a Make a deception check with disadvantage It's a good thing I'm so charismatic That's just a straight rule 7. They're Aunt Antoine.

You tell stories of the island, you tell stories of your father's farm.

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take it any more you tell them everything that you know you tell them about baron morady you tell them about the sanctity and sanctuary of cemeteries you tell them about onyx's house in the feywilds you tell them about ensembles friends you tell them about the strengths and weaknesses of the party and in return they let you sleep you are holed up in a dark secluded and dirty cell you are kept solitary you are were kept heavily guarded. And next to you, one day, you hear a voice. Is someone out there?

Who is that? I've been inside for so long and I just... You sound familiar.

You sound...

I met you. Do I recognize this voice? You do, but make a history check.

How the hell? Oh, I got confused. I was about to say, how the hell do I have a plus two? That's a minus symbol. So when you take two away from five, you get three.

Which makes perfect sense. You were at Thlorn's funeral. You were with... Aelar. You were with... the court. What the fuck is it, Aelar?

I'm going to die in a cell next to an idiot.

I'm going to die in a cell next to a really rude person.

You will pay respect when you speak to the Queen of Air and Darkness. You underling piece of... And you hear her shriek in pain as her magic started to pulse out and restricted itself. And she's left silent.

It is the present day.

Al.

Yeah. You have been planning. You know that the Queen of Air and Darkness has been held prisoner in the Last Garden. You have been planning for about three or four months away to break her out. You have only recently gotten back in contact with Onyx and Ensemble.

You are in one of the many cemeteries of New Orleans.

Which one, Samson? Be specific. Samson, bitch. that we can't continue until you paint the full picture.

You are in St. Louis Cemetery.

Do you have the address for that? Yes, I should. I just... He just closed the window. He just closed the window. 501 Basin Street, you son of a bitch. I'm sorry, I didn't catch the zip code. Fuck off. you are there with Della Lena Liana Namira and you are very subtly joined by Ensemble and Onyx they have been gone from the main from in contact with you they've been loosely in contact with you over the period of the last year. They've been off doing their own thing most of the time as, Al, you try to navigate this new world of they being isolated and imprisoned.

You've also been trying to manifest and figure out how to lead a court that doesn't truly exist anymore when so many are looking to you to lead them. And beyond that, the entirety of the Feywilds in the Material Plane is looking to you as one of the highest ranking free Fey in the city. Ensemble and Onyx arrive and you notice Chomp is not with them. You have not been in contact with them since sending the message by Moth. You see just the two of them arrive. So they enter where we currently are and I notice Chom's not there.

And I go, Ensemble Onyx, hope you guys are okay. Thanks for coming. I know you've been around doing your own sort of reconnaissance and your own dealing with all this shit. Um... I thought Chomp was with you. Uh, yeah. He was. Yeah. But we're not sure exactly where he went. By this point, would we have deduced where he was? I'm thinking I would have figured it out because of the whistle. You've heard no evidence or even whisperings of of an alligator man from anything. You think that he may have been captured, but you don't know for sure.

Okay. Yeah, I'm going to go based off the fact that I heard a whistle, and we know what that whistle is.

And I went black for a minute, and when I came back, he was gone. So I'm going to assume the hangmen have him. But I can't say for sure. Well, shit. Um, that's not great to hear. Um, I look over at, uh, Namira and I just go, we should talk to who you can about getting, getting eyes or ears on anyone that could look like, sound like Chomp. And I look over at Della too, as she's been sort of helping with some recon as well, and just kind of nod at her, kind of like reiterating the same sentiment. Um, I go, um, well that's, that's a, I guess that's a problem that we need to solve.

We have another one that we're close to solving that I hope you're able to end up for helping with. Samson, the place I know the Queen is being held at is that last garden, right? Yeah. So I go, I know you guys had an altercation at this place, and honestly it's kind of thanks to you guys that we were able to get the info that we have. I will say, many Fae spies did die to get this information. I was hoping Eric would give me more of a smile with that one. I was trying to keep it cool. So, I go, um, the...

We were able to locate the Queen of Air and Darkness, and she's at the Last Garden, and I think we have a plan to get her out, which would be very beneficial to get an Arch Fae out. And we could definitely use your help. Zeb, you are across maybe about 200, 300 feet across in different part of the cemetery. You have been working target practice on tombstones. That's badass. That's badass. And being discreet. Nice.

You shoot. You're sort of working a drill to see how quickly you can fire your shotgun and then load two pistols and shoot immediately.

Hold on, Samson. You said he's working a drill, but also a shotgun and two pistols. How many hands does he have? Okay.

I need you to roll a sleight of hand check to make sure you can sort of manifest the three shots as quick succession.

11 plus 7, 18.

You are able to pull it off and you hear a chuckle behind you. You gettin' better with that you. And the Baron is standing, watching you, fire away at tombstones. Oh man, it's having the bone daddy been caught. Bone daddy back! You gettin' better with that you, but you gettin' colder too.

You think the others they don't see, I don't know if they notice but you're not sleeping anymore you. As far as I can tell, they haven't noticed a thing.

How many you killed yesterday? Hmm? Only three. And the day before? Another two? How many are you going to kill tomorrow? Look, I'm not doing this because I like it. This is just part of what needs to be done. These are bad people. You know when they're spirits they come to me. Who wouldn't want to come to them, huh? They talk about, they tell me their last secrets. The last thing they see before they die. You know what they tell me? Fear. The man with cold, dead, black eyes staring them down with a pistol pointed at their heads.

Yeah, of course they do. I was there. Tell me something I don't know, dude. No argument. You guys all wrote some serious bangers about what you did in the last year, just saying. And you were all kind of specific that the other people don't know about these things. I'm pretty sure the only real banger about my thing is the stuff between me and Alixis, and we both know about that. Oh my god, are you still banging her sister? And your fey wife? You better not be. I'm gonna call you out on it later in this story.

You better fucking not be. Prepare yourself. I've been waiting. I also don't remember writing narking on everybody, so thanks for that. You weren't going to. If you succeeded all your con saves, you wouldn't have narked on everybody. Eric, it's called subtest, okay? If you succeeded all your con saves, you wouldn't have narked on everybody. Get better dice. Be stronger next time. Have you ever thought about maybe, uh, lying to Samson about your dice? Is that what you do? Oh. But I roll good sometimes.

Sometimes.

With 1985 games, you don't care.

Zeb, nearby your radio crackles a little bit.

You hear the receiver pick up.

Zeb, are you there? What's up, Doc? I heard you got some more of them the other day. You're really doing us all a service. You're taking out the syndicate left and right. What happened with the woman walking down the street that kind of got caught in the middle of the... Collateral damage. I mean, listen, you know that what needs to be done, and there's gonna be some sacrifices that have to be made to get there. It's not like I get enjoyment out of it. It's just what has to be done. Um, I spoke with some people that are gonna take care of our family.

So... Shit, they're gonna kill the family too. Okay. Fuck.

Is there something? Something? I don't know. I heard something coming. I know that... You're a freaking asshole. I know that your group is planning to go into the last garden. I heard there's chatter like crazy coming from Hangman over there. They got some intel or something, they know something's up. I don't know what you need to do, but you guys have to be super careful. Okay. Well, Doc, I appreciate that. I think I'm going to be best served from a distance. I'm the one that can keep the lowest profile.

and if I could if I could be a support from the back this is gonna help aid our goal so I'm gonna go see if I can get some information and maybe kind of keep to the shadows after that

Zeb when was the this is me the DM not doc how long has it been since you have slept At this point, it's been how long since we stopped from the previous chapter. Like four. So it has been a year since you have slept. Yeah. So a Grandma JJ amount of time. Got it.

You don't sleep anymore.

Everyone sleeps and you think. and when you think you tend to go to dark places i need you how many times have you thought about killing the party as they slept roll a d12 everybody's like i mean not i don't think too many times but the thoughts crossed his mind okay a d8 what have you done to my sweet boy i mean the thing is is that zeb zeb at this point i think you know he he has a goal in mind and he thinks he can probably mostly achieve it on his own um so other people getting in the way is not the best but at the same time he recognizes that his party is also doing things that are moving towards his goal as well so it's kind of a delicate chess game i would say how does zeb plus he's still best friends with al right How does Zeb feel about Al calling the shots?

He's not... Zeb thinks that he's not being decisive enough. It's taking too much time. And Zeb could probably be doing it better. For real, Al. Now, I have a question. I also don't sleep, so do I ever notice that Zeb doesn't sleep? you haven't really so how crazy is ensemble you haven't really been around the group that you've been running your own stuff so i don't know that you would necessarily have been keeping track of zeb's nighttime activities i'm going to say i'm going to roll something real quick And we'll see if I say anything.

I wonder if it's a dice. I hate when you do that.

Was it a 1985 size? It was a 1985 size. Oh, shit. I'm screwed.

Al. Yes?

About a month ago, Namira came to you. I caught sad with nighttime activities. No, Nymira came to you concerned about Zeb.

He just kind of watches everyone at night and does that for several hours and then eventually wanders away and comes back just before everyone wakes.

And when he comes back

He smells of gunpowder

I go listen Seb has been through some shit. I you know he he lost his you know, he lost his shadow

He's probably the closest friend I have here, and I don't want that to cloud my judgment. So, I'm giving you full reign to keep an eye on him and make sure he's not taking things in a direction that we don't want to be going in.

Understood. Maybe, maybe he just... I don't know. Do we know anyone that could get us some, like, tater tots or something? Next time I make a supply run, I can try to find some. Yeah, something just... I think we all could use, like, a morale boost, you know? So, maybe he needs... a little extra. How about you? You've been... You're working pretty closely with Della, but it's very evident she hates you.

Um... I... I... It's fine. We... We have an understanding. All feelings aside, we have a job we are accomplishing. It's fun.

And when you think no one's watching and you stare at Lena, what's that?

It's... I don't know. Okay. Disgusting. I've been trying to keep her. I've been trying to keep my distance with her. Out of respect for her, for Della, and everything that's happened. And of course, Liana.

What does Liana know? This is the DM asking. What does Liana know? I would have probably told her everything.

Roll...um...just a general roll, I'm gonna have this as just gonna be an all-encompassing stealth check with disadvantage. Stealth check? Yes. What am I being stealthy about? Just...just go with it. Oh god. Just like when Eric had two fours, I got two nines, and my bonus to stealth... It's a solid ten, Samson. Another brief flashback scene about a week after you spoke with your sister. Um, my darling husband. Hmm? Yes? It is quite difficult to be here with you in this situation when it is so clearly evident to me that you wish you were with someone else.

it's not that it's not that I wish I was with someone else it's just that you can't take your eyes off her when she's not watching you it's just that you don't look at me you look at her it's just that I'm here I'm your wife and yet she gets your gaze.

I just look at her and I go, how long have you known me?

Over a century. You were my only friend for that entire time. I guess I'm not your only friend anymore. Al's sleeping on the fantasy couch tonight. We are in the present day. Zeb approaches the reunified group. There's a lot of heaviness in the air and tensions between people.

The original party stands minus Chomp with the addition of Lena, Liana, and LeMira.

What is the first course of action?

I'm going to go up to Al. And I'm going to elbow him. I'm going to be like, Are you still fucking your wife and your girlfriend right now? Or how's that going for you? Jaila's eyes open wide and she slowly turns her head to look to see what that answer is going to be.

So you see Al get very much tripped up in the moment by the question itself. Like, just not expecting it. And he just goes, You... Hi, Onyx. Uh, you, you, you know, I mean, I, and I never did anything like that. I don't know anything, you pointy-eared freak. Sorry, go ahead. I will say, Al, upon Onix rejoining the conversation, you notice that this is not the same Onix that you last spoke with. This is... A third Onix? It's not a third Onix so much as... A fourth? Shiny Onyx? It's not the same Onyx so much as you see...

Is it Steelix? Jesus Christ. You see... You see characteristics of Nyx poking through Onyx's personality.

It's like someone traded her while she was holding an iron coat.

I love, Joe, that you're just getting these.

I go, it's kind of weird that, like, half of your eyes are all black and the other half are, like, fine. It's kind of weird that you have a wife and a girlfriend at the same time.

I don't have a wife and a girlfriend at the same time. Anyway, back to the situation at hand.

So, yeah, we are going to be... Fuck, Nymeer, can you just lay out the current course of action with this? I need a second. And I kind of move away from Onix. and I'm just like, Jesus fucking Christ. My bad. The mirror goes into full tactical general mode.

Okay, Intel states that there will be a weak point at the southeast fence of the last garden.

Ah, the ventilation shaft, got it. We have it on good authority from a fae inside that they're able to weaken the sort of magic dampening barrier at that point, temporarily. And that they are going to attempt to do it at 11.30 p.m. tonight. We have 11.30 p.m. is the time that we stop, Samson. Yeah.

We will have a 10-minute barrier, 10-minute window to get in before alarms start going off, before guards start being aware of our presence. If we can get in successfully without being noticed, once the barrier goes back up, we will be scot-free, will be safe inside.

She looks at Della, she looks at Onyx, she looks at Ensemble. We can't cast inside. What do you mean?

If you cast inside, it's going to be like a homing beacon for the warts. It will backfire, you will be hurt. And everyone will know we're there.

So I look at it and I go, what about magics like scrolls and the like stuff that is already cast and just access through that stuff? You told me about this thing in the material plane, like an EMP. It would be like that. They won't work. Scrolls are just paper inside. I'd be useless. What about magic items? You'd be useless unless I can get to... Al doesn't know this part. If I can get to the security office and disable the glyphs and the warts, if I can... I kind of look at her and I'm just like, you've got your own mission, you're not...

When were you gonna tell me? Your mission is to get the Queen of Air and Darkness, but if I can get there, we can get every fae out of there. If I can disable glyphs and wards, every fae will have magic immediately. But it's like you're shooting for the sun. We were gonna be discreet. not going to get another chance.

Couple five. I just kind of look at her.

And I'm just like... Just... It's been a year. My people, your people. I understand you didn't want to come back. I don't know if you still want to be the leader that you are forced to be. I have a duty to all of the courts. I have a... If I can do this, if I can free an entire camp, then maybe a year of sitting around doing nothing will be worth something.

I just kind of... I don't know what to say to her. because I thought her and I were on the same page with a lot of stuff. So I'm just gonna... You are... the leader of my court. If you give me a direct order, I will not disobey it. Are you ordering me not to do this?

No.

But just know that if you fail, it will be a lot worse for everyone. That's us getting her out, us getting us out, and the movement going forward, because you won't be here. Well then, I better not fail. Yeah.

This security office, do you think they have any sort of tracking of the guards that work there? Any way that we could target specific people who may be working for the Syndicate? I think that that's going to be where most of the hub of information for this entire encampment will be. I'm coming with you. I'm going to make sure that we don't fail.

I look at Zeb and I go, Zeb, you are my closest and bestest friend. I am trusting you with my sister's life. Al, we're going to get the mission done. This is a good plan.

Don't like that you didn't return the sentiment, but that's fine. What's there to return?

You're right. It's the truth. It shouldn't even need to be said. I have no idea what you're talking about. Let's get out with this plan. Exactly. Man, what a left triangle. Hey, can I, um, Sam, can I just go supersede you for just a second? Yep. Al, can you roll, um, roll investigation?

Oh, God. At advantage Actually yes, sure, go for it Sick That is a 19 Do you notice that Zeb's pants are You know, they're like on his waist But they're just down a little bit He's not wearing tighty-whities anymore They're boxers Fuck Fuck This is all his fucking business. They are boxers. And more surprisingly, this isn't the man that I knew. He's changed. He's changed. I'm more shocked that they're dry. I notice this and I look at Nymeera and I think back to my conversation with Nymeera from like a month ago or whatever.

And I'm just like, fuck. Fuck. He's off the deep end. Dallalina pulls you aside.

What do you... What do you think about the plan? I think it's the best chance we've got. Without magic, I think... I don't think we really have a shot.

Do you think, do you think, um, and she kind of glances over, uh, like a side glance at that owl.

What do you think about, I just can't buy a visit. I'm so tired. We've been living in cemeteries and in hiding. Del, we're not Faye. We don't have to do this. We could just leave. We could just... We don't... I don't have to fight his battle.

You're right. You don't. And you get to make that choice for yourself. But you don't have to fight it either. I love you very much. And I'll always protect you. But I do have other things going on that don't involve you. And for right now, this is where I have to be. What things? You don't tell me anything anymore. You just... You just kind of look into nowhere and go quiet and dark. And I... What things, Del? And Delic kind of just... You can see her eyes glaze over a little bit as she kind of retreats inside of herself.

and she sort of looks down at her hands and her arms, which are exposed, and she can see fresh tattoos. She's just looking over her fresh tattoos, which are sort of glowing a little bit all over her skin. It looks almost like they're sort of dancing a little bit. And she looks back at Lena, and she says, I can't discuss this with you right now. We have bigger things to worry about. Let's just focus on the task at hand and get through this. And then maybe afterwards, maybe we can sit down and have a discussion.

She turns away from you and starts walking away. I need you to make a perception check with disadvantage to see if you hear something.

Okay. She walks away and goes, fuck it. Probably.

Okay.

That's an eight. Okay, you don't hear anything. Fantastic. Does she get a plus four because I'm around? Oh shit, she does. So that's a 12. Just in case? Thanks, man. She wasn't trying to hide what she said. She was just mumbled in her breath.

I can't beat you. Maybe JJ was right. That's worse. Damn. Death crazy. That's way worse. Yeah, that's bad. That's bad. Do you react Do you react Fireball Waterball How fireball Waterball Waterball Act Fireball How far away is she from me About 15 feet Uh... Delicast mage hand quickly grabs, uses it to grab her wrist and kind of whips her around, jerks her around. And then she walks up to her, not quickly, not too slowly, but just at a normal pace. And she gets right in her face and she says, If you ever say those words to me again, we're not family.

Got that?

Yeah, sis. I got it. Perfect. And then she lets her go and walks away.

Della, you've leveled up. Retroactively. Yes, go ahead. I'm sorry. I was going to say retroactively. Did I get that plus four for looking at the boxers? Just like I tell what brand they are with that plus four. Boom! You've leveled up several times. What Loa would you be communing with at level nine? Is it still Baron Maready or is it a different one? The death guy? Some AD, that's Baron Maready, some AD. Okay, cool. Yeah, so definitely him. Still him, okay. In that moment, anyone that noticed Della would have seen sort of silhouette of skeleton pulsing out of her body.

As you can see, her entire framework of bones illuminate just briefly in her expression of emotion. Do we have to roll something to see if we see it? Because I would like to be... I'm nosy as fuck, so... You would have, if you watched it, you would have seen it. Hell yeah. Onyx is like... My goggles are on. I would have been purposely avoiding looking at where they were standing cause my wife is in the room and Lainar is in the room as well. I would have called your ass out so quickly too. Al is such a wiener.

Is there anything that the group needs to do to prepare before heading out to the Ninth Ward?

Uh, yeah, Samson, I don't think we ever discussed my cloak that I picked up from my apartment in these months. Yes. Um, so, uh, I would be wearing that, so if there's anything with that, you should just let me know. That's it. Um, I would, before we do anything, I would like to discuss what our roles are set to be. Because me and Ensemble, we just got here, we haven't been a part of the whole... Oh my god, I'm gonna throttle you, you little perv. Um... Since me and Onthumball haven't really been a part of this whole planning portion, I'm kinda curious where we're falling into this order.

Yeah, what's my job, coach?

Uh, you are a giant instrument person, uh, and your job is as such. I start playing music.

Just dancing. there we go uh the gang's back together a little tippy tappies exactly it's lo-fi hip-hop by the way that's what i'm playing watch namira knows what to watch for um for when the gate goes down uh for when the from the wards and barrier go down she has sort of an enhanced detect magic that is infused in her vision as part of her job as sentinel of the twilight court so she can actually see the framework of magic um so when that goes down it's going to sort of be a speed kind of thing how quickly and how stealthily can we get in before the wards go back up so does anyone have passed without trace.

No. No, I have an agnostic pattern. What's an agnostic pattern mean?

It's basically a wisdom saving thing where I can make a 30 foot cube that just shows anybody I deem as my enemy a bunch of patterns that makes them unable to move and incapacitated until somebody physically hits them. I don't know if that's helpful or not. That would probably alert people more to your presence than anything, though. Yeah. Follow up quick. My last question. How are we communicating in there? Do we have little walkie-talkies? Or is there a way for us to communicate with each other?

Because I feel like we're going to end up at some point kind of splitting. At this point, you have sort of the way that the same way that Al communicated to you, you have sort of arcano tech versions of earpieces that you can communicate with each other. Okay, got it. I'm done.

Samson, I am texting you something. I just want to ask you a question. Gotcha. Yeah, I also sent you a chat in Discord with a question. I'm waiting for you to take me some attention. In my private Al chat, I just sent it to you. Oh, not in text. Okay, I was looking at my phone. Samson, I'm just going to call you really quick.

Y'all are so funny. While you're reading those, Zeb,

when me and Ensemble come back, do you interact with us at all? Or are you just kind of still off to the side, minding your business? Off to the side of my new business. Okay. Okay, okay, okay.

That being said, I think we are ready to attempt this rescue mission.

Traveling through this city at night is tough.

Is there anything you guys do to make it less conspicuous? You

You know those things that you use to like mute a horn a muffle mutes

Sure words one of those I put them all

Musicians will get this this is your spoo from musicians on top you covered in in In Humes and Berg straight mutes. Just covered in Humes and Berg straight mutes. They're red and white. That's what they all look like. One Harman mute with a stab. One Harman mute. You just hear... Did Zip and Sayzler make it back? Please somebody draw that, please. That would be so amazing. That would be really funny. What were you gonna ask, Rowan? Oh, did Zip and Sayzler make it back? Where are they at? What were your exact words to them when you left them there?

To find the twins and meet us back at the headquarters? At the spot?

He's still a Nat 1 for Zazal. Oh God! No! And a Nat 3 for Zip. Oh no! At least one is dead. You don't know what happened, but neither of them ever made it back. One is dead. And the real kicker is that one was Cacophony to Death by Cacophony 2.0. So it's gonna be reset. I'm not saying that either of them were dead, they just never made it back. You're also not saying they're alive. Not saying it, but also not not saying it. Okay. So it will be just the five of you plus Lina, Liana, and Namir. Damn.

So again, how are we traversing the city? Can Zeb kind of like... I don't have any like special skills, but I'm stealthy as fuck. so could I like figure out what's that bad to stealth these days plus 11 maybe so could I like come up with like since I've been spending my time you know quietly moving around camps could I like stealth roll to try to bring us through like one of the stealth stealthy paths that I've figured out I think that because you have the stealthy paths that people will roll with advantage on their stealth check, but we still need a group stealth check.

Add your plus four. Uh, I take out my cellphone and I call a friend that we made. The plus four is just for saving throws. I have to correct something. Yeah, it's just for saving throws. Oh, my stealth is ass. I take out my cellphone and I call an old friend and he brings his magical SUV and picks us all up. I love that. So do we all have to roll higher than a certain number? Uhhhh...we are looking to beat a 15 as the average. That's not gonna happen. I said this was with advantage because of the- I got a 20.

I get super advantage plus my maul heron. I got 15. You got 15? I got a 12. Fifteen. Rowan, what did you get? A thirteen.

So we had two people below average, three people, two people at average, one above average. So we are going to say that that passes.

You may get through the city unseen.

There is graffiti everywhere. There are broken windows of Fay establishments and patrols passing through. This is not the New Orleans of a year ago. This is an occupation, an occupied city with a presence that basically makes it feel like the entire city's a prison.

No children playing outside, no partying on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. No bars open. Just sort of a sense of quiet and despair. Propaganda plastered all over billboards. Images of friendly officers of jazz smiling and saying, stay indoors at night for your safety. We're here to help. Photos of Zane Cold Springs plastered around his papers, articles about him, all the great things that he's been doing to help the safety of the Syndicate. As the leader of the current occupying force. No mention of the Syndicate, only the Arcane Security Act.

Zane is the head security officer of the Arcane Security Act. But the full force of New Orleans governing forces behind it.

You are outside of the Ninth Ward.

Near abandoned warehouse district. You see from the tree line Lights flashing they pass overhead as floodlights make rounds. Namiro watches one specific panel of fence.

She watches and she waits. And in a moment... Go! Now! I need everyone to roll initiative. Except for Chomp. Aw.

Oh. Oh shit, where did I roll? I think I rolled 13.

Um, does a nat 1 stand? Or can I add to it? Nat 1 stands. Anyone above which point?

Anyone 15 to 20?

This is not good. Anyone 10 to 15? 13. 14.

Yikes, you guys. Anyone 5 to 10? Technically, mine was a 6. I also got a 6. 7. How sum would you get? 7. I'm gonna roll for Namira. Her roll is very important.

Samson, if you lie, we won't lie. I'm not lying about anything. I'm also not telling you what she rolled.

Uh, Della. Lena will act on your initiative. Al, Liana will act on your initiative. You could roll for her, see if she gets better than me. It's fine, I'll allow it.

Don't do me any favors, Sam.

I'm going to roll the most important d20 of probably this episode. to see if the floodlight passes over you.

The floodlight rolled a natural two. You like it?

Unfortunately it has a plus 20.

You are all inside.

Zed, you act first.

What are you doing?

So, did Nymera say that she knew where the security thing was or that we needed to locate it? She gave Sort of loose Hand drawn Blueprints of the facility To each of you Okay so we know where Stuff is relatively We know where stuff is So Zeb's going to look at Nymeera And like I would think That they would have planned before that Those two specifically were going to go And try to find that security Whatever It is building so he's going to head in that direction as stealthily as possible and kind of goad Nymeria to follow so we're going to call it move action action to move and dash action if we want sure, yeah get as close to it as I can gotcha Della.

So they're just going to find this... whatever. Yes. So, we didn't really plan this out very well, did we? I tried. Well, in theory, you planned it out as well as Al planned it. Thanks a lot, Al. What the fuck? First of all, Nymeer is my planner, so Samson, that's on you. You guys know where the Queen of Air and Darkness' cell is. So I think the idea is probably... So that's probably where our group is gonna start heading to. So that's where we head to. Or start heading to. Making our way to. Making our way downtown.

So we'll just call everything move actions for the foreseeable future until things start colliding with each other. Okay. We are still operating in the 10 minutes of that barricade being down, which means there is a glitch in magic suppression system. They are not aware of it, nor will they be aware of it. However, you are aware of it. You can potentially use magic during that time. We will have to roll Arcana checks to be able to have it not backfire. That's dumb. You're in the equivalent of a sensory deprivation chamber when you need your senses to be able um you're pulling blindly for magic in a place where there is the absence the sheer absence of magic so it's not going to be a high check for this to work unless things start going wrong Okie dokie Zab, you and Namira get to where it should be except the only thing you see in front of you is a wall There is no seemingly door and you see Namira looks confused at first And her eyes narrow and you see them sort of flash over a little bit No, there's a door there, but it...

There's something making it so we shouldn't see that there is a door, but it... I'm gonna do something. And she sort of walks forward into the wall and you see her disappear. Zeb, what do you do? I'd like to go over where she walked into the wall and kind of feel around to see if there's something that I can sense with another sense besides sight. Your hands pass through as you touch the wall. Okay, I follow. You're a wizard. I follow in.

You are in a large, sort of like a conference room. There are screens lining the walls, paperwork everywhere. and sort of a big orb in the center. It almost looks like one of those Tesla orbs that you used to be able to touch and the electricity shoots at your fingers. When you would go to what's it called? Oh, we started with the sharper image. They have the sharper image. Throwback to the mall. I love when it makes my hair stand up on end. Yeah But etched into the glass of this orb is Ruins the entire way around the mirror says Being near that thing is making me feel nauseous It Something Something is wrong This shouldn't exist.

This is some this this something is wrong this oh I don't and she starts to almost convulse a little bit being in proximity to it do I feel anything? no okay I'm gonna I'm gonna say well if it's making you feel that way then back up Does she back up? Does she back up? Uh, she tries and stumbles and she sort of falls backwards. Okay, so Zeb walks over and tries to pull her back. Uh, you can. Okay, are you okay? I need to know how to shut this off.

I don't know. Um... Just Get rid of it somehow Okay Zeb like not nicely But kind of just like let's go and then gets up And walk the mirror falls down. Yeah, and then he walks over to so I'm looking at a big like Tesla orb Yes in there the runes are on the organs Yeah, runes etched into the glass containing whatever's in there. Okay, um... I'd like to tap it with my finger, gently.

It makes like a... DINK sound as you tap it. Okay, great, I'd like to shoot it.

The orb has a damage threshold of 20. So, you need to deal 20 damage to the orb to deal any damage to the orb. Okay. But what is the bonus to point blank with a shotgun? Well, it's a hunting rifle, but yes. I love the scientific- I'm not gonna make you roll to hit, I'm gonna make you roll damage. Okay. I love the scientific process here where it goes immediately from tapping it with a finger to shooting. If it pings, it bleeds. Umm, okay, well, let's see. I can't sneak attack the orb. I'm just checking.

You cannot sneak attack the orb. I don't know. It doesn't know you're there. I would, yeah, it does not know you're there. It could not be any more sneak attackable than anything else. Okay, alright, let's see what we get. Alright, I got 4 plus 3, so 7. What did you fire with? With the hunting rifle, which is 2d10 plus 3. I was going to say you rolled 2d10 and you got 4. Yeah. Oh no. Now, are we in strict initiative? Could I bonus action?

You know what I'm saying? You bonus action. Okay. Okay. So like to tie it back together, I just practice doing like the double pistol shot and then the rifle. So in this instance, I'm rifle shooting and then letting it fall down and pissed off taking out a pistol and shooting with the pistol. So that's going to be... You need to hit 20 points of damage in one turn to do any damage. Oh, damn it. Okay. Well, let's see what happens. And don't forget, when the rifle falls, it goes off and shoots the thing again.

Alright, I got 10, so 17 total, I guess, with the rifle.

It sucks that you didn't use any, like, hunter's mark or anything. Well, I can hunter's mark a orb? You can hunter's mark anything. Really? Yeah. Just like you can sneak attack anything, right Samson? Okay. I mean, I guess technically you could. You used your bonus action to fire the pistol, so we wanna make a difference if you need a bonus action to use your motorsport. Yeah, that's true. Okay, well, I'll keep that in mind for the future. We're being pretty loosey-goosey with initiative in this room, right?

I don't think so. Well, the problem is... that Zeb just fired a shotgun blast and two pistol blasts. Hunting rifle. But he has silencers on all that. I feel like that's slightly quieter. Instead of- I said slightly, it's- Woowww Uh, first thing I need you to do is roll a dexterity saving throw. Me? Oh gosh. Yes, you. Okay. Oh, Jesus. Um... Dexterity saving throw... That's a nine.

How much damage did you deal total? Seventeen. Would you like to uncanny dodge? Um, I...

Let's see. That's a reaction. Right. I'm just looking at this, because I got like two things now, because of my gunslinger, and I'm trying to see... The other one doesn't make sense, so yes I would like to uncanny dodge. Okay. Then you will only take 17 points of damage instead of twice that amount of damage as the blast of energy that you put into the orb shoots back out at you because you dealt it no damage. That's what you eat. Our daddy has never been meaner this round. Good god. Just started.

Sam's like, psych, I actually didn't want to play this story anymore. I have to be meaner because you're all level 9 now, so there's gotta be stakes. No stakes. No stakes. I'm vegan. We're not fighting back for Samson. No stakes. Are you actually? No. I just don't eat red meat. Me neither. Me neither. I ate a cheeseburger for dinner.

Umm... Back on track. Sorry.

I'm gonna roll something.

That can never be good. Alarms start going off throughout the- Oh shit. Sorry guys, I couldn't break a glass orb. With a gun. I'm so disappointed. But you wear boxers now, come on, man! Yeah, Samson, what was the attack buff to him wearing boxers? Like, you gotta give him something for how easy and breezy he can move now. His bits got a nice breeze going through now. They got air flow. That's the attack on us. So, plus three, got it. Della, you're next in initiative and you start your turn by hearing alarms going off in the camp.

Fantastic. Hangmen start pouring out of the towers surrounding the camp. We will. Great. Magic is still glitching for a little bit. Uh-huh. So what is it that we see exactly? They're heading the direction, so they're not heading towards you. Okay. They're heading the direction that Zeb and Nymera went. Okay. So in theory, your path should be more clear because of that. Yes. So I would say let's continue. I need stealth checks from everyone that's on team Aaron darkness Do we get a little bonus from Onyx?

No, that's only for saving throws Damn it I got a 19 And because Zeb isn't here, it's just a regular roll 14 for me

18. Samson, uh... Mine would be an advantage, right? Why? For reasons that I've messaged you about. Oh, yes. Yes, actually. Ridiculous. Always a favorite, Todd. Always. Mom and dad.

Well, it could have been a 10, but it is a 15. So we have... 1, 15. Yes, 114. 114. Correct. 19? Oh, very nice. Look at us. We beat 15 again as a group. You're able to narrowly evade several guards, several patrols. You're also able to narrowly evade any of the prisoners seeing you. which is good because we don't know how that would react. Nice. Huh. Yeah, fuck that. Sambo, what do you want to do? You said the hangmen are closing in on us, right? They're closing in on Joe and... Neymara. Hm. Yeah, that's not us.

So what's going on around us again? You're moving towards the Queen of Air and Darkness's cell and you're narrowly evading everything that's happening. Just keep moving. Onyx, do you do anything but keeping moving? Just going. Al, do you do anything but keeping moving? Uh, you know exactly what I'm doing based on what I've messaged you. Yes. So. It is fact zip. So, I just hear alarms going off. You hear alarms going off, you hear voices getting louder. Is Nymera, like, just on the floor? Nymera is pretty much incapacitated.

Okay, I just close the orb. Ummm... As I'm... because I'm... at this point I might as well just keep shooting the damn thing. But before I do that, would you grant me, like, an investigation check to see if there are any other ways out of this building except for that door? Yes. Okay.

Um... So what does a 15 get me? This room that you are in only has the one entrance you came in.

And that's not because you didn't roll better than... It's just the way the room is. Okay.

Alright, well, we're gonna try... Let's see. Ugh, man. I like how Lexus just knitting during this.

Okay, I think we're gonna try to do that whole process again. And one thing I noticed on the last I'm still getting used to my new stuff here that when I with my rifle, it's sighted, so when I hit a creature with an attack I can reroll any of the damaged dice and must take the new roll. So that could have helped me last time, I think. If you would grant me that being a creature.

I'll allow it. Okay. Well, let's try it again. I have a feeling it once was a creature. Yeah. I'm going to shoot it again. First with the rifle. So here we go. And I'm going to reroll both of them because I got two fucking twos again.

Okay, a four and a one, that's a little better. So... That's five plus three is eight. That's one better. That's one better than you rolled more. Okay, hey. Okay, and then I'm gonna... eight. And then I'm gonna try the pistol again. Which is... If you do that much better on each of your weapons, you hit it. So then that would be... I got... I got nine. Plus three is twelve. Plus eight is twenty. Fuck you, Orb. Yeah, fuck you, Samson. I'm like, fuck you, Orb. He's like, fuck you, Samson. The orb shatters.

Namira immediately breathes in deep, and the weight that is pressing her down, the sheer vacuum of magic that was that orb. And all of the ambient magic reappears and refiltrates into the last garden.

All of the prisoners suddenly start feeling strength return that they didn't have before. It becomes utter chaos in the camp. Magic is being cast left and right. This goes to Della. Do I feel funny? Or less funny? Yes.

Um... Could I do things?

Roll yourself into initiative. Cool. As entertaining as it's been to watch all you guys. 16. Wait, I have advantage zone initiative. 20. Nice. Woo! That's how you do it, guys. It is. Hey, we're here to save you! You're here to save the Queen of Air and Darkness. You don't know I'm here. You will be going right now.

I hope you planned something. Is this something? Nope. I feel better. Hey, you little lady, you wanna get outta here? The air seems suddenly a lot clearer. You hear an explosion.

And suddenly the door to your cell opens and there is standing the Queen of Air and Darkness outside of your cell. So are we- we're both like free now? Yes.

Well I was gonna do that, but I guess that works too. Do I do that either? Stop the game. I think Chomp just wants to- just hits on all the powerful ladies. Um... It's not what he meant, but sure, why not. He likes a strong woman. He likes a strong woman. Who doesn't like a straw woman?

I think... You go on ahead. I would like to... have some words with our captors. And she becomes pure wind and darkness. And you just see, sort of, like, the smoke monster from Lost... Oh, God. ...through the building. Okay, bye! And I'm gonna assume that there's fighting gonna happen, so I'm gonna rage for the first time in like six months.

Maybe you'll get a beam of light again. Oh, this is cool! Sorry. So I rolled a six, and this is persistent, and I am born aloft. I gain a flying speed equal to my walking speed. Nice. Chomp's a dragon. Chomp's a dragon. Finally. Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts. Uh, Chomp, you have your full turn, uh, except for bonus action. You are a flying gator man. That's awesome. So, I'm going to Superman pose and start flying down a hallway that I can only assume leads out of here.

Are you using move action plus... Yeah, I'm... ...to move? In the... Uh, unless I have something bad to hit, then I'm, uh, moving and dashing. Er... Yeah, action dash, yeah. Uh, you encounter the group coming to rescue the Queen of Aerodontics. You... Guys! You came to save me! We sure did! We sure did! Thank you! I knew I could count on my friends! Al goes, Uh, so... Now that we've saved you, Uh... We want to save some other people. Do you know of anyone else that's here? Uh, that... We can save?

Maybe powerful... People? I was in a room with a really brave lady. But she turned into a smoke monster and went to the whole fuck shit up.

Got it. Okay. Uh... Samson, would I have seen, because of the stuff I messaged you, where the smoke went? Yes. What the fuck? Mom and Dad always have secrets. What the fuck? I want secrets too, damn it. You can have secrets, you can send me messages. You can have secrets. Okay, so we saved Chomp everyone. That exactly what we came here to do So now on to plan C of the mission and that is don worry Chomp you plan A Can I roll insight Yes, roll insight and I'll roll deception. That's an advantage close to my moth right?

Oh fuck you. This is already good. Oh, uh, deception, uh, dirty 20. Yeah, you, I believe you hold heartily. You're my best friend. I go, okay, so plan C is we're gonna, uh, we gotta unlock as many of these prisoner gates as we can. And I think we should head in this very specific direction as we're doing it. And I direct everyone to start freeing Fae prisoners as I direct them in the direction that the smoke went.

Della, it is your actual turn of what anything you might be wanting to do. I mean we just learned that the person we came to set free is kind of free so right in front of you yeah yeah yeah exactly yes 100% yeah so I just you know kind of fall in line and just say all right well and then I just kind of help I guess release prisoners at this point

Or whatever. Zed. Also fall asleep for Ensemble Onyx, or Ensemble, are you possibly looking for other people? I think I might be looking for some other.

I've been sending out my message cantrip to Zezol and Zip and... Oh god, I'm forgetting names. I made too many. It doesn't matter. The others. The others. Just trying to get a hold of any of them Samson, make note Take note that when you kill someone behind the scenes Rowan actually forgets that they existed That's how you know they're dead So Chompful Turn to Ensemble Do you think we have a fine bargain in Bounty? I don't No No we didn't Ensemble doesn't even know who they are What's the range of message?

120 feet.

I will say that as you are moving through, you do get a ping. Boss! Boss! Are you? Yep, wait, what room are you in? Where are you at? I'm on my way. They... They killed Barton. I knew it. I knew it. I fucking knew it, Nicole. They killed my brother, Oz.

Why didn't you come sooner? This is your fault! Damn.

I'm... I'm... They... I'm with Zezo and Zip. Um, they kept... Small they together, um... You have to shit in a bucket! What the fuck?

We're... I don't know where we are, um... Sounds like organ music! Just... find us. Okay, I just start walking around. Can I use my air cannon to just start bursting every door open? Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do that. The first one just blows all the mutes out. I just wanna, I wanna like stand at the end, I'm imagining standing at the end of like a hallway or something and just BOOM! Cannons. All the doors burst open. So the first time that you did that, I tried really hard to find the brown noise from South Park to be the sound of the cannon.

But when I found it, it's always surrounded by, like, the sound from the show, so, like, townspeople. But really what it is is just a really low fart sound. And I didn't want to do that to ensemble. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. So everyone looks in there, Chad, all those shoot out of ensemble in every direction, so these projectiles shoot out of ensemble right now.

Yes. How many people die because of this?

They just get struck with it. They're meat sinking into the wall. I forgot about those. It is utter chaos. You have opened the cells. A lot of them are empty. A lot of them contain beings that are too weak to actually exit themselves, even with magic back. So it is sort of up to you what you do when you find Fae that are too weak. Al looks over at Chomp and goes, Chomp, whatever happened to your magic bag?

I have no idea what you just said, dude. Yeah, they didn't really come through at all. I'm excited, but it's just a bag. What do you mean magic? So you usually fit so much stuff in it, I just kind of assumed it was magic. Or it's a really good bag. With magic. It's like a Janscorp. Onyx! It's a Janscorp! Do you have Chomp's bag? Yes, I do give Chomp back his bag. I've had it with me the whole time. And I go, Chomp, stuff as many fey into this as you can. I do want to say that out of context chomps bag is a bag of holding the problem with bags of holding You can't breathe in those things.

You'll die You just leave the top open You just leave the top open They are airless vacuums Yeah, you just leave the top open Okay, now You just leave the top open It would not be really great if Al doesn't actually know this I'll just kill all the things that I got Well, okay, hear me out What if I, would you allow me to cast a tiny hut on the bag of holding to make it the tiny hut for the fey to carry them around him? It lasts for eight hours.

You, this is altering the spell in a way. I need an arcana check from Ensemble to make the spell work the way you want it to. Okay. Call it DC 15. Can I give him advantage if I help lend my arcana wisdom, whatever the fuck? Yes, I also that's all you need to rename the spell to something because we're using this all the time I Also use my bolstering magic thing so you can add a d3 to it. I Rolled a 15. Do you have advantage? Okay, so we definitely do the the sack is now a tiny hut You can fit I think it said eight people in it 8 people for 8 hours Well, we've altered the spell though The sack fits What is it, 500 square feet Or something?

Something like that Thick Um Chomp's really good hut This is Jansport's a hell of a bag really Chomp is apparently carrying a house on his back Now It's so it's up to 500 pounds of weight and a volume of 64 cubic feet. Okay. But these are a Maci and Fae so... This has been altered by Ensemble's spell, so I will say you can chuck 15 Fae in there. Dope. Steal.

So we're just chucking Faye in a sack.

You make it back to the main area where there's different cords sanctioned off in different tents.

Shredding them apart with the air cannon, the sound cannon. hangman start converging trying to stop what is happening fair dropping left and right as hangman take them out on simple what are you prioritizing looking for your people or Or stopping the hangman? I will find my people. You start using the message cantrip like a humming beacon and eventually figure out where they are. Did I say Barton died or Bartleby died? Yes, one of them.

You can be both of them if you want. I'm going to choose, since I don't remember, that Barton died because I like the name Bartleby more.

Okay. Bartleby is a boggle. Bartleby is also currently missing an arm. Aww. Zazel has essentially had her wings clipped. She cannot take flight right now. Oh my gosh. That's fucked up. My babies.

Zip has been hobbled. That's fucked up.

But you do find them and they are alive. Throw them in the bag. Yeah, I grab them and bring them to Chomp and get them safely into the bag.

They're super tiny, so they only count as one, right? They're pretty tiny. One is a pixie, so that should be fun. One's a pixie, one's a boggle, which is like the same size, I think. They're not very big. Jumping back to team security, um... The Curdy?

Zeb, you and Namira are currently inside the security offices as Hangmen start entering the office. What are you doing as they start sort of bottlenecking inside, one at a time, to the door? Um, so Nymeera is like up now? She's up. Okay. Um, I'm just gonna say, or I guess ask, Nymeera can you handle this for 30 seconds? Um, yeah it's just one or two of them coming in at a time. I can deal. and she pulls out her she has opted to use a different set of weaponry now instead of a greatsword she sort of dual wields short swords and just sort of in melee range starts stabbing hangmen in the chest as they come through the door sick while she's doing that I would like to so are there like computers around I I know you said there were like papers on the table.

There are, there's a wall of screens. I'd like to see if I can use any sort of system there to locate three names, the location of three names. Go ahead and we're going to call it, this would be in modern D&D what's called a hacking check. I don't know that you have this skill, so we are going to go ahead and call it intelligence check... straight intelligence check, because this is not... this is going through a system you're unfamiliar with in trying to do an intense speed to do that. that. Okay.

Do I get to add my intelligence modifier? Yes. Okay. So it'll be plus three then. 10 plus 3, 13. What are the three names you're looking for? Zane. The Frenchman's real name which I think you said was like Le Loop or something like that that's his nickname his real name like I don't know if I would know his real name or not I would assume so because I did spend some time like with Zane yes you know his real name Samson doesn't remember your name but you know his real name Lucien Boudreau okay that's the second name and then the third name I'm just typing or whatever I'm just searching for Doc just seeing what comes of that.

Okay. Also, Zeb's very good at Googling. We established that in episode one. He can manage like 100 tabs at one time.

You know what? Fine. Roll your intelligence check again and take the higher number. Let's see what you get.

Well, that time it was a 16 plus 3, a 19. Zane would be first for sure. And then after that, I think Doc.

Um, I'm trying to see if either of them are in this facility. If there's some sort of like check-in, check-out system. if they would be here or not.

Zane is not there.

Nor does he keep offices there. There's no reason for him to be there. He doesn't keep offices there.

Doc is an interesting one.

You search for Doc, and it's almost like the screen glitches for a second in front of your face, and you see a file that you didn't notice before that says dock on it, you can choose to take time, which would take up the rest of your turn, to open it, or you can choose to quickly pull out a flash drive and download it.

Um... I will... I'm going to look at it. Okay, do you want information privately or publicly? I'll take it privately. Now I get secrets. Who gets info privately? This is the first time I've gotten secrets, and I for one am excited. It's not the juiciest bit of information, but it's something. Okay. And the fact that it's private does have implications for the rest of the group in in terms of what I told you just now, because you don't know what other people know. Okay. We're going to just actually move to the initiative of just the other people that are not in the security room, so it's going to be sort of a collective initiative as a group.

You have the three other people that you were looking for. Bartleby, Zip, and Zazel. Is the plan to leave? Is the plan to try to get back to Namir and Zeb? What's the plan? Because it is very rapidly becoming less safe to be out in the open like that because more and more hangmen are filtering through. Anyone who's following my direction would be heading towards where the smoke went. We're going to move, actually, to Al. Where is Al actually? Not the Al that's with the group, but the actual Al. Al would have been caught up to wherever he could find the queen.

The queen is currently making a game of spearing through hangmen.

So I'm behind her. I'm invisible. And I go, well, it seems like you're taking out some anger. Ah, Aelor. I trust that this, all of this wonderful, uh, return of magic has something to do with, with your efforts? Uh, in part, in part, mostly my sister. Uh, she was in charge of that leg while I was looking for you. Then it would seem I am again in your debt. It is funny how this keeps happening between us. So I have a proposition for you. It's been some time that I'm sure you would like to get back, and I'm sure you would also like to make the most of your freedom and make the people who imprisoned you pay, and That is not just these low-level hangmen, but the top brass.

That is our goal right now, is to reverse everything that has happened and kind of get back to a position where our courts are restabilized. because I don't know if you felt it, but I certainly have felt the lack of presence of the courts.

What exactly are you proposing I do? Uh, I am proposing that you, instead of, with your freedom, trying to get back to the Feywilds or just taking revenge on what you can until either you're captured for some reason again or worse, some of the heavier hitter hangmen are able to potentially, you know, wound you in a way that I couldn't even fathom. I think it would behoove both of us for you to join me, just like we were planning prior to all this. Be on my war council, if you will, right now. And take these fuckers down.

Make them pay for everything they've done and are doing to our people. and do it strategically. You see she solidifies into her corporeal body. Will there be much money? I can most certainly guarantee it at this point. They need to understand the path. Oh, they will. My father did not give his life. My brother did not give his life for us to not take this matter as serious as possible. So we start here, and then we take it to where it began with the severed. Then I find your terms amenable. Fantastic.

What would you have me do right now? I remember a little over a decade ago you were able to spirit me and my now wife away in the blink of an eye. My friends, I, and all the fae here could use similar assistance. Let's see. We need to transport several tens of thousands of square feet of space to where? Where would we be going? Our main hideout. That place. Would I think that there's enough space for everyone there? Yes. I tell her exactly where we're going. Then, I need a few minutes. This is a bit different from transporting.

You and the air of daybreak. A few hundred feet to a hedge maze.

Yeah, yeah. Anything you need me to do while you prepare?

Just allow me to focus, and any distractions coming this way, take care of them, will you? Sure. As I agree to that and she starts, I will use my channel Divinity, which should not drop my Invisibility because it is a class feature, not a spell, an attack, or whatnot. and do my Twilight Sanctuary. So that way I've got some stuff going on. Yeah, I'm just casting that and waiting for things to come up on me.

Back to the main group.

Would they have any knowledge of knowing what you're doing? I didn't tell anyone, and the owl that's there, who I am controlling, as they are, I guess, picking up where they found Ensemble's crew and whatnot, All of a sudden that owl just kind of pauses and he goes, okay, we found her.

He looks over at Della and goes, all right, Della, I'm sure you can understand what I am doing as he puts his hand through Chomp, and he is not corporeal at all. And he goes... And I go, I found the queen. She's going to get us all out of here. We need some time. You can follow this owl to me. Might need some help in guarding her while she preps. But she's going to get all of us, all the Fae, out of here. Unless you guys want to go find Zeb and Nymeera. But I need to stay and guard her while she prepares this spell.

would you be telling us where she's taking everyone to I would just say that she's gonna transport us someplace safe where is she taking us chomp have you ever been has chomp ever been to this place it's it's no i don't think so i so i i say to chomp i go you haven't been there uh it's cool uh not as swampy as you like it uh a lot of dead people which maybe you do like um but it'll be fine Alright, if I don't know about it, it's fine, but when we're out of here, we should talk about all the places I do know about.

I just kind of look at him and I go, uh-huh, okay, sure, sure buddy, we could talk about the places you know about. Can I make an insight check?

Sure. You have advantage because I'm scarred as fuck.

There's my plus for insight.

It's a 24.

I look at Chomp and I go, It's okay. We're fine. It'll be fine. Yeah, so wherever you guys want. So is the group going to the queen or is the group trying to find Nymear and Zeb?

That's a question for Della, Ensemble, Onyx. I would think either myself or Nymear would have communicated that, hey, we're trapped in this room. Because we have the little earpieces, right? So we'd be like, things are getting dicey, but y'all have magic now. So Zeb says things are getting dicey, and fake Al has his finger to his ear and just goes, copy that. Maybe you guys should go to Zeb.

Copy that. All right, you got it. I like that Alexis just finds you insufferable as Delo. And that is my favorite bit of the game. So you guys start heading towards where you saw Zeb in the mirror going. You're traveling as quickly as you can. Are we aiming for speed or awareness? Both. I'm fucking flying there. Fake Al can move super fast, but he can literally do nothing. Go back to your body, Mr. Secret. I can fly now, so I'm flying there. I feel like we should go for awareness, because last time I wasn't aware, you shot me with a shotgun.

I would agree with that. True. It's a hunting rifle. I want the shotgun.

Oh, that's right. Zeb wasn't the one who shot you this time. Not yet, I'm assuming. She's one bad night away, though. Plenty of time. We just started.

It is suddenly much more quiet as you're moving. the chaos of the hangman seems to be pausing for some reason.

And you're not quite sure what's happening as you're moving towards the security room.

You're seeing less and less people you're seeing less and less fey are we seeing bodies or just no one you're seeing bodies of duplicates but no bodies of fey laying on the ground you're seeing bodies of fey also that have met with an untimely sort of moment of them trying to escape and being put down anyone who wants to make a history check can okay i got this history Dirty 20 Nice 11 What happens when the body of a duplicate is ended to the hangman spirit? The ghost comes out Find a new body But we have our little baggies from Della so we should be able to see spirits, no?

Yeesh in theory yes chomp would you have told them about the green rebugs no if you're leaving it up to me no so one thing he didn't tell them about samson everything else yes I told him Al's social security number, but not about the Grootry bags. It's five. That's Al's social security number. At least that's what he told Zeb. And Zeb believed him.

The fallen bodies of the Fae start reanimating. Oh, Lord. And as you are moving quickly, you hear a whistle blow. Zombies. Zombies and whistles. Ensemble, make a charisma save against with disadvantage. Add your plus four because that's a save. Plus four, but with disadvantage. 19. With disadvantage? With disadvantage. Nice. You're still holding on. But we've made some modifications to some security medals. You take 27 points of psychic damage. Who does? ensemble. Oh! I'm used to it. Oh! This is so incredible!

You notice up ahead as you're moving there are reanimated fey bodies. Behind you there are reanimated fey bodies.

I need everyone to make a wisdom save. Vector plus four. Does fake Al need to? Does Zeb need to? You say a wisdom save? Al wisdom save, yes. Zeb does not need to. Is this a magical effect that I would have as Vantage on? It's a spell. word eight for me 19 for me also 19 chonga 19 I rolled a 14 I have a plus one I got plus four from boys wise today Della, you lose the ability to hear everything outside as you're sealed inside an orb of containment. It does not work on the other three of you. And as they see the spell fails...

And while this is all happening, Al, Fake Al, is acting like everything they're doing is missing him and he's just going, wow, you guys really suck today. And he's gonna just start like teasing them a little and a real owl who can see and hear everything that's happening is gonna relay what's happening to the queen and be like, is your spell like, is it able to differentiate between fey and possessed by ghost fey? We'll resolve that in a minute. What was the saves? I also have something to resolve real quick.

Mm-hmm. Would that hangman that did the damage to Ensemble, are they within 30 feet? It was the Frenchman that did the damage to Ensemble. Same ship. And not within 30 feet, no. whatever okay then i got a 28 for my constitution 28 yes 17 plus 6 plus 4 she's hearty uh you chomp what did you get uh dirty 20 you feel your bodies get hit by something not like gun blasts but more like darts your senses are dulled but you are still aware of your surroundings you're still standing you're not unconscious as a sort of toxin enters your bodies do i have to pull a blow dart out of my ass We don't want to kill you.

We just want to fuck you. We just want to be inside you. You're wild. we just need to have a conversation where we can all understand each other a little bit Al just goes listen no one no one can understand half of what you're saying and that's where we're gonna end our first episode of chapter two yay Yeah, we did it guys Thank you for listening We have been Saving Throw Society And our cast includes My name is Katrina Kenny She, her, and I play Onyx and Nyx My name is Joe Gailey, he, him And I play Zebulod Coldsprings My name is Alexis Lupien, he, her, and I play Della.

My name is Anthony Corletto, he, him, and I play Al. My name is Rowan, they, them, and I play Ensemble, they, them. My name's Eric Trulik, he, him, and I play Chomper. And lastly, I am Samson Flansbaum, my pronouns are he, they, and I play the world and everything else inside of it. Make sure you follow the social media pages of your choice, they can be found in a link in the description, and for even more content like this, our talkback show, and bonus one-shots every month, make sure you become a subscriber on our Patreon.

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