Vigilantes of Grimmsburg

In this one-shot - Lupa, Whisper, Shank, and Fernal Force gather outside the side of a gruesome crime.  A new villain in town going by the name Question Mark has kidnapped several important people in Grimmsburg and are holding them hostage.  Can they learn to work together to save the day? Find out now!

Cast:

Shane Jordan as the GM / @Sjordanx2

Sara Katrenich as "Fernal Force" / @sara_katrenich

Mike Magliocca as "Shank" / @fightinmike

Sean Michael Chin as "Whisper" / @seanmichaelchin

Alex Taylor as "Lupa" / @taylorrosealex

Music and Editing by Chloe O'Donnell

Additional music by Shane Jordan

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:04

What's up, Dimension Surfers, and welcome to TalkPresents Earth2K, the tabletop one-shot anthology series exploring media in the tightest time period ever, the Aerosirk of the year 2000. Seemingly every week, a new devastating threat is neutralized and the world almost immediately goes right back to how it was. No recap needed ever. That's right, talkers. This is a no-diving stone.

SPEAKER_11 0:27

Whoa! Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

From the Batman and Nightwing to Jessica Jones and Daredevil, today's one-shot celebrates street level vigilantes. Gotham, Health Kitchen, and Bloodhaven have nothing on today's city. This is Earth2K, Vigilantes of Grimmsburg. Speaking of, let's meet today's cast. First off, we have an advanced actor combatant, stage combat instructor, and proud member of the Vixens on Guard, and a certified teacher elect.

SPEAKER_13 0:59

That's a joke!

SPEAKER_00 1:02

No, no, no, it's staying in there. Real ones know.

SPEAKER_13 1:06

Real ones know about certified teacher elect.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Real ones know about certified teacher elect. Which this comes out the 31st. Will you be done by then?

SPEAKER_14 1:12

No. Oh. Be two weeks in. I'll have one more week plus to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Interesting.

SPEAKER_14 1:18

I'll be in the trenches.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Fascinating. Um, I didn't say your name. Alex Taylor.

SPEAKER_14 1:23

That's my name. Now I have to say what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

I mean, tell us, tell us a little about your character, your vigilante.

SPEAKER_14 1:30

Yeah, um, she's uh D.Va. Um I am playing a like archery heavy ranger with a lot of hooded sweatshirts and bad attitudes. Good. But she really loves her younger brother. Okay. It's very important to her.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Incredible. She's and she's, I believe, a little wolfy.

SPEAKER_14 1:54

Woo woo! Yes. Yes, she's a wolf girl. She's a wolf girl.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Our next cast member is a fight director, certified teacher at Neutral Chaos Combat, and coordinator of the SummerSling Stage Combat and Stunt Workshop, Mike Miyaka. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 2:11

Um, I will be playing. Are we doing names?

SPEAKER_08 2:14

The Shrouded Shank!

SPEAKER_09 2:16

Um Philip used to be a uh uh uh a very well-known um super teenage superhero um with his twin sister, and is uh trying to make a new name for himself by going solo. And is just uh a little bit uh edgelording his experience trying to don the cape instead of just being uh sort of a teenage superhero sidekick. So um, you know, uh he's a soul knife when it used to be cute little uh pink stars that he would use to take down little teenage miscreants, are now full ass daggers and knives that he psychically rips people apart with.

SPEAKER_14 3:04

Okay, Beyonce.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

But it's psychic, so you know, it's not murder. Yeah, she's not Destiny's Child anymore.

SPEAKER_14 3:11

She's on She's Destiny's daddy.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Our next cast member is a fight director, surprise. I don't know if you guys are seeing a theme here, and combat performer in New York City, Sean Michael Chin. Woo! Woo!

SPEAKER_06 3:25

Uh I will be playing uh Whisper, who is a uh new transplant to the city. Think Trenchcoats, think a golden coin flipping between the fingers, uh think shadows, and uh we'll see where it goes from there.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

And our final cast member of the day, we uh she plays Lucinae Not on the Trying Our Quest main feed, and she is my Scattergood castmate, Sarah Katrenich.

SPEAKER_04 3:53

Hi, hi everybody. Um yeah, I I I also do have done stage combat before. Like so I'm cool too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

I didn't know that. That's crazy. Didn't know that?

SPEAKER_04 4:04

Why did she put that in the intro? Yeah, wow, Shane.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

No, okay, this wasn't in her version of the intro either.

SPEAKER_04 4:12

You just know my past. Yeah, when I was in Ohio, I was in uh a Shakespeare festival and we did I was in the fighting corps. So I know how to wield a a bl a dull blade or two. Um I'm playing fernal force.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Wait, I'm sorry, can you say that one more time?

SPEAKER_03 4:27

Fernal Force.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Fernal Force.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

Infernal force. What does fernal mean?

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Uh it's of ferns.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

Of ferns.

SPEAKER_12 4:35

I was like, infernal?

SPEAKER_06 4:37

Obviously.

SPEAKER_14 4:38

Oh yeah, guess I'll die.

SPEAKER_06 4:42

Infernal force is a different thing.

SPEAKER_04 4:47

Um, so Kelsey used to be uh a member of the teenage duo with her twin brother, Philip. And they had a lot of fame, a lot of success in it, but they she's also interested in finding her own way, uh, soaking up her own sunlight and planting her roots on her own.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Did you have a team, a teen duo name?

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Yeah, we absolutely do.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yeah. We were the quick little justice.

SPEAKER_10 5:24

Quick little justice. Quick little justice?

SPEAKER_14 5:30

It's a beautiful example of an MFA acting exercise.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Oh my gosh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:34

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Yeah. You you probably have heard of them.

SPEAKER_06 5:37

You can't go past a middle school in this town without seeing QLJs on every tween. Yes, the cool J's.

SPEAKER_14 5:43

No, no. I reject that.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

QLJ's.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Yeah. Yeah, the QLJs. Quick little justice. Quick little justice. Quick little justice. Welcome to a radical adventure. We zoom in on Earth 2K from space, passing bright superhero beacons of futuristic cities, small towns with big skate parks, and mountains with fresh powder just waiting to be shredded. We settle in the dark and rainy skies of Grimsburg, the dreariest city on the East Coast. Founded in 1810 by William Grimm, Grimsburg is famous for its historical Gothic architecture, renowned opera, and charismatic new mayor. Historically, the city's been plagued by corruption and organized crime. The police are paid off by the town's wealthiest and most morally corrupt. Mayor Mateus O'Meyer won his election in a historic landslide with promises of cleaning up the streets and the police simultaneously. But the citizens of Grimsburg are tired of promises, and many have opted to take matters into their own hands, heroically facing threats and corruption the police have been paid to ignore. We settle even deeper into the Grimsburg's South Side. To what appears to be an abandoned dive bar called Coterlini's Cantina. A worn and torn poster in the window says Trivia Night. Inside we see a man in a bright orange and purple striped suit. He fiddles with the gold stopwatch. What year did the Titanic sink? Your teams have three minutes starting now. He looks at the empty bar around him. Even the bartender left. He puts his watch back into his coat pocket. The back door slams open, and a large man wearing a black pinstriped suit and fedora waltz in. His fat fingers are weighed down even more by thick gold rings, and he fumbles, getting the large lit cigar out of his mouth. Well, well, Marco Demanda. Oh, uh, Mr. Cartellini, uh you here to play some trivia? Why, no, Demanda, I'm not here to answer your stupid little riddles. They're not riddles. It's trivia. It's facts, it's truth. Well, truth is, Demanda, I don't give a shit. What I do care about is my money. You promised me this trivia night would bring in customers. Now you're three times overdue on paying me back what you owe me. He looks over at a grainy CRT TV screen, and the news shows the headline, Vigilantes save Mayor O'Mare's life at opening of the new opera starring Scarlet Cantante. Now see, that's how you pull an audience. Politics, theater, drama, important people doing fucking anything. That's what brings the people in. No one wants to hang around and play games with a nobody like you. No, I'm telling you, trivia isn't the future. In like 20 years, everyone's gonna want to go to trivia night. Cartellini pulls out a gun and holds it at the man. I gave you your last chance. That's three strikes. I'm afraid that future is one that you're not gonna be around to enjoy. Boys! Take out the trash. Two more men come in, drag out the body of Marco Demonda. We cut to Grimsburg Waste Management. We hear the sound of a clunk, a trunk slamming, the screech of tires speeding off, and the body of Marco Demonda lies motionless, his head dangling off a pile of trash, and we see from inside his coat slips a gold stopwatch, a single bullet embedded in the back. Three months later, there's a lot of police chatter about something going down at Cartellini Cantina. And of course, it's located down a shady street known as Money Laundering Alley. Let's roll to see who gets onto the scene first. Let's let's just roll for initiative. 21. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 9:20

I also got a 21. That's hilarious. I got a 23.

SPEAKER_06 9:27

I also got a 23.

SPEAKER_14 9:29

No!

SPEAKER_04 9:32

Can I just say though, I have a plus six initiative, and my brother only has a plus five. So technically I win.

SPEAKER_09 9:38

So technically you do arrive for twins. Someone got out of the womb one minute before the other one, and she wants to lord it over me.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

So the first two on the scene, how do you guys like to show up to a scene? You um monitoring the police scanner scanners? Does the mayor or does the mayor's office call you directly?

SPEAKER_14 9:57

No, no, nobody's gonna be. Do you have a beacon in the screen? The mayor certainly is not calling you. I think I'm monitoring the scanners in the police chatter. But I'm I'm not I'm not showing up for for nothing. I'm not showing up. I'm I'm showing up to see like who needs something and who's willing to pay for what they need.

SPEAKER_06 10:14

Whisper overhears a lot of things just from being off in a dark corner, minding his own business, keeping his head down. Probably overhears a radio call from some beat cops.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

You guys walking right up to the scene, or are you gonna scope it out first?

SPEAKER_14 10:30

Loop I would like to watch from an adjacent roof. Classic. A classic.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Very easy. Money laundering alley is a shady, skinny alley. So you're you're right across. Very easy to see from the room. You're looking straight down, yeah. Well, I guess you run into each other first on that roof. You arrive at the exact same time. Well, probably not.

SPEAKER_06 10:49

Because as long as Whisper is somewhere where there's some shadow, chances are he's invisible. Oh, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_14 10:56

I think I fear I'm not invisible.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Fascinating. Do you want to be hiding from Lupa? Oh, yes. Oh. Oh dear. Oh, let's let's roll that then. Um, go ahead and make a stealth check and then Lupa make a perception check.

SPEAKER_06 11:15

I will roll the stealth check, but I also have my one with the shadows casting invisibility. Oh, you're straight on invisible. Magically invisible.

SPEAKER_04 11:24

Is this a is it a cantrip or an ability or a warlock ability.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

That's cool. What's Lupa get on perception?

SPEAKER_14 11:32

I 14.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

A 14. I think you you maybe feel a break in the wind, something slightly unnatural, but you shrug it off.

SPEAKER_14 11:42

Bad vibes on the street in general.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Vibes are bad. Money laundering alley. Money laundering alley. Um, but you do see two cops down on the street talking outside. This is Cartellini's place. I'm not going in there. Well, it's technically our job to it's technically our job for shit. He's the boss man. He lines our pockets. Let's just say that we checked it out and stay out of it. Well, you are the senior officer, so whatever you say, uh, and they wander off.

SPEAKER_14 12:09

I think that Luba has certainly encountered Cartellini in his work before. This is the man of great means, right? Who's willing to pay for things to happen the way he would like them to happen. I think this is probably a reasonably frequent associate. I don't think she's afraid of going going in there.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Alright. You knock on the door? The place appears to be abandoned.

SPEAKER_13 12:32

I was gonna do like a secret knock. What about for the secret?

SPEAKER_00 12:39

A little Toady guy pops out of the sewer grate. Oh, hey, it's Lupa.

SPEAKER_14 12:43

Hello, yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Hey, do you see the mess that's in Cartellini's place?

SPEAKER_14 12:47

Oh, is it bad?

SPEAKER_00 12:48

It's not good.

SPEAKER_14 12:50

Is it ever? Is it ever good?

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Yeah, no, no, it's usually bad. When Cartellini's involved, it's usually really bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this time it looks like it's Cartellini's guys.

SPEAKER_14 12:59

Oh. His guys that are that are Yeah. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

And it sounds like no one's heard from Cartellini since the incident.

SPEAKER_14 13:07

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

His group's kind of freaking out.

SPEAKER_14 13:09

That's not good. If nobody's heard from him, how am I how how who's gonna pay me?

SPEAKER_00 13:13

You you are you're on Cartellini's payroll?

SPEAKER_14 13:16

Well, you I'm not out here talking about it a lot, but uh sometimes for Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

For Christmas. Anywho, I'm not going anywhere near that place. I looked in the window. Bloodbath.

SPEAKER_14 13:29

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Can you smell it?

SPEAKER_14 13:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Alright, well, I'm gonna go back in the sewers. If you need me, just knock. I think about this point in time, uh two more people show up at exactly the same time. Uh we see. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, about three to four paces ahead. Power walking.

SPEAKER_08 13:53

Slow down. What why are you here? I'm getting here before me.

SPEAKER_04 13:57

I am here before you. Not getting, I am.

SPEAKER_08 13:59

No, how do you always get here before me?

SPEAKER_04 14:01

Because I'm just faster and more initiate than you.

SPEAKER_09 14:05

I swear I'm right behind you. I'm I'm gonna see what's going on first, though. Okay, cover me. I think. I'm a faster looker.

SPEAKER_04 14:10

You're a faster looker.

unknown 14:11

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:14

I don't know about that. I can read the wind. Get out of my way. Get off me! Get off me. Okay, fine. Can I stand on your back and look in the window?

SPEAKER_03 14:24

I would like to roll a stealth check.

SPEAKER_14 14:27

I don't have to deal with that.

SPEAKER_08 14:29

No, we're not a team anymore. You want to look in the window, you look for yourself.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 14:33

You're right.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Roll that stealth check. You you hear you easily I'm not gonna I'm gonna pass. No, no, no. You two have forfeited the right to a stealth check. We're gonna say that the perception check is unnecessary here for Lupa to hear you coming, but yeah, Lupa, go ahead and roll the stealth check. Okay, if you would like to look. Well, actually, I'll let you guys do a perception check on the scene in general. And if you roll better than 21, you'll you'll also spot Lupa.

SPEAKER_04 15:03

Well, that's impossible because I have a plus zero.

unknown 15:06

I got it.

SPEAKER_09 15:08

And I have a minus one.

SPEAKER_14 15:12

Very good superheroes.

SPEAKER_09 15:14

It's so rare.

SPEAKER_14 15:16

I got a nine.

SPEAKER_09 15:19

Also rolled a nine. And it goes down to an eight.

SPEAKER_18 15:24

Down to an eight. The dice tell the story.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

You you you go to get on uh I want to say Philip, but I'm sorry. Shank. You can just call me Shank. Just Shank. Just Shank. It's just Shank.

SPEAKER_12 15:37

Fern and Shank. If there's anything more like I'm desperate to be taken seriously as a teenage boy trying to be a man, Shank is absolutely uh Fern goes to get on Shank's back and totally slips, falls on top of him.

SPEAKER_15 15:52

Yeah, you push me off.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

They don't even see in the window, like they. And then uh uh and then we cut over to Whisper. Um, what was he been up to during these shenanigans?

SPEAKER_06 16:06

Whisper has been taking just the most detailed notes about the three of them ever since they arrived. Like, truly, this is what Grimsberg has to offer?

SPEAKER_14 16:18

Oh boy. Listen, I was doing real impersonation.

SPEAKER_06 16:23

As the twins are doing their um uh Tower of Terrible impersonation, uh Whisper just magically floats a little translucent mage hand to check the door to see if it can actually just open.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Oh, yeah. Nice. The door is unlocked, and it opens at the touch of a mage hand. That was crazy. I didn't open the door.

SPEAKER_14 16:48

I'm gonna go ahead and own that that was crazy.

SPEAKER_13 16:53

There's nothing in the window. Surely I can't go in.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

The door creaks open, and uh twins, you're you're at the window next to the door, so you see the door creak open.

SPEAKER_05 17:04

Oh! Oh okay.

SPEAKER_15 17:07

Our heads still pop in just the other Scooby just to go. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_09 17:12

Look inside.

SPEAKER_15 17:13

Okay, we we look inside.

SPEAKER_09 17:15

You go inside?

SPEAKER_15 17:16

We look inside.

SPEAKER_09 17:17

I I Shank goes inside. He's not gonna be second again.

unknown 17:21

Shank!

SPEAKER_00 17:23

You step inside and you see there's no bodies, but there's a lot of blood. Uh looks like a combination of cuts, gunshots, fighting, like there's like hand prints on the bar, broken glass everywhere. This was a fight between a lot of people.

SPEAKER_19 17:44

It looks like the end of a movie.

SPEAKER_09 17:45

Jesus, uh, it's everywhere. Where where are all the bodies?

SPEAKER_04 17:49

Yeah, a lot of blood, no bodies.

SPEAKER_09 17:52

I think I'll look for escape routes or any like open doors to the basement or oh yeah, give me an investigation check.

SPEAKER_14 17:59

I would like to be able to see what they're doing. I I want to like assert some dominance. I would like to dramatically throw a dagger like through the the door, like into the wall, you know, like doing scary.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

Yeah, make an attack roll.

SPEAKER_14 18:12

18.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

There's like a uh a poster in the back on the back wall that's like two people cheersing, and you throw a dagger and it goes right in between like the one guy's head, and he's just like, cheers. And you two notice.

SPEAKER_04 18:27

Whoa!

SPEAKER_07 18:28

Great purple dagger is just like floating over my shoulders.

SPEAKER_04 18:31

Uh, and a thorn whip comes out of my side. Uh and appear like where where his daggers are.

SPEAKER_09 18:37

Come on out.

SPEAKER_14 18:40

Who the heck was that? Listen, kids. This is not, you don't want to be here.

SPEAKER_09 18:45

Do we recognize how famous are you?

SPEAKER_14 18:48

I don't think I've I think I try not to be famous. I know who you are. Okay. Because my brother.

SPEAKER_18 18:56

Justice.

SPEAKER_12 18:58

My teenage brother, big fan of the QLJ.

SPEAKER_04 19:02

Unfortunately. It's a pretty act uh active fandom, I must say.

SPEAKER_06 19:06

President of the fan club at his school.

SPEAKER_14 19:08

Yeah, he's really yeah, big, big fan.

SPEAKER_06 19:11

Is this your work?

SPEAKER_14 19:12

Why why? Because I'm where why? Because I threw a dagger?

SPEAKER_09 19:16

Because you're at the scene of the crime.

SPEAKER_14 19:18

I was here, so are you.

SPEAKER_09 19:19

You're in a sewer hiding like a rat.

SPEAKER_14 19:22

Whoa!

SPEAKER_09 19:27

What? What else lives in sewers?

SPEAKER_14 19:29

Lots of things. Lots of things lives in sewers. I live in sewer.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

Okay, look. Yes. We were also at the scene of the crime, but we didn't do anything.

SPEAKER_14 19:40

And you're walking around in the blood.

SPEAKER_04 19:43

Yes. So I can report that there's a lot of blood in here. I can see that. Thank you. Um, and it doesn't look a Why are you here?

SPEAKER_14 19:52

Because I need to figure out what's go what happened to Cartellini. Okay? He's he's an important uh it's an it's an important relationship. Something happened to Cartellini? Well, he's not here, is he? Well, there are lots of places he's not.

SPEAKER_09 20:06

This is his place and it's and it's sort of covered with blood. But I don't see his body. I don't see anyone's body. So you got an idea of why there's no bodies here?

SPEAKER_14 20:14

Well, I would assume that they've been removed, taken somewhere else. Are you gonna be good? Are you gonna be annoying? I heard you all the way down the alley yelling at each other. Oh. This is kind of an this is not like a loud operation. I don't run a loud operation.

SPEAKER_04 20:35

That's fine. You might you might think, okay, I see what this is. I see what's going on here. You think that we're QLJ.

SPEAKER_14 20:47

I know that you're QLJ.

SPEAKER_04 20:49

No, no, no, no. Did I hear QLJs in here? No, no, no. I love QLJ. They broke up.

SPEAKER_07 20:55

Oh, QLJ broke up?

SPEAKER_04 20:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 20:58

Could you get my niece? I I'd really like an autograph for you.

SPEAKER_09 21:02

There's no QLJ here.

SPEAKER_04 21:03

I'll sign as Fernal Force.

SPEAKER_07 21:05

But you're both here and you're QL, you're both here and your in your siblings.

SPEAKER_14 21:09

I no. Yes. No. Not in a matter of stinking.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Todd McAllister, nice to meet you. I'm just kind of, you know, yeah, I keep my eyes on the neighborhood through the sewers.

SPEAKER_09 21:21

Listen, we're here to get our first case as solo superheroes. Exactly. I'm here to get my first case wrapped up as a solo superhero.

SPEAKER_04 21:29

And I'm here to get my first case wrapped up as a superhero, even a little bit more before you.

SPEAKER_09 21:34

So as long as you're helping me. Me.

SPEAKER_14 21:38

Lupa's like, why did I come out? Why am I here? Why didn't I just stay where I was?

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Anyone who's in the bar uh can roll an investigation check. I rolled one already. It was a two. I got distracted by the dagger.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

I rolled a 15. I rolled an eight.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Uh Lupa notices that there are footprints in the blood that lead. To the back room.

SPEAKER_14 22:01

She just is going. We're not, I'm not she doesn't she's not saying what's happening. She's just following the footprints to the back room.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Lupa confidently heads into the back room where she sees there is a box, a television in a VCR, and a VHS tape on the table that says playmate.

SPEAKER_14 22:20

Okay, Jigsaw. Oh. Okay, I've put the tape in the VCR.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

There's static for a moment and then Hello, brave officers of the GPD, or more likely the vigilantes of Grimsburg, brave enough to investigate a murder in a known Catalini front. Welcome to the show! I am Question Mark, your trivia master for the evening. Why don't we start this trivia night with a bang? Hey, if you should live, you can find me on channel 6 with the rest of the city. Now, for your question, during what year did William Grimm found Grimsburg? Oh yeah, and for some reason you have to hit pound after you put your answer in or it won't accept it. Anywho, good luck, Quizzilantes. You have 20 seconds starting now. The lid on the box in the room blows off, and it reveals a ticking alarm clock, a bunch of dynamite, and a number pad.

SPEAKER_17 23:12

Uh 1810! 1810. Is that right? I think so.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

18 something.

SPEAKER_08 23:18

History checked.

SPEAKER_17 23:18

Early 1810.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

I was gonna make you do a history check. The year is 1810.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

How did you know that? Because when you said it, I went, huh, that's more recent than New York City was founded.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

I thought it was being so sneaky. I was like, no one is gonna notice that me in the prologue is staying this year, and I'm gonna bring it back later. And I thought about not doing it at all and just making you do a role for it. Honor student.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

You know how this works. That's a veteran right there. It was just like, oh, that's more recent than I thought it was gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Um, you remember a little uh mnemonic device to remember it? Uh William Grimm, we love him. He founded the city in 1810.

SPEAKER_17 24:00

And you know what I remembered.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 24:03

Are you sure? Yes, I I'm pretty William Penn, we love him, founded the city in 1810! Okay, okay, okay. That's how type that in a press map.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

It doesn't rhyme. The ticking stops.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

Okay, so information we just learned.

SPEAKER_14 24:23

We learned that Grimsberg was founded in 1810. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

Yeah, and we learned that there's a question mark floating around.

SPEAKER_14 24:30

Right. Oh, that's a person.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 24:32

Mark.

SPEAKER_04 24:35

Oh, you think his name is just question mark? His name's Mark?

SPEAKER_14 24:38

Yeah, there was a weird emphasis in the tape, didn't you hear it? He was like question mark. Like it was like a fun Oh like a fun rhythm. The the the whole superhero name thing, I get it, but doesn't that sound like just a guy named Mark who thought it was a fun word in front of his name?

SPEAKER_09 24:52

Easier to remember. I've been having trouble remembering Shank. Snuck Phillip in there or something. Uh it's been really hard.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

Yeah, I don't know why you went with Shank.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

The daggers float silently over my shoulders. You also remember that in the tape he said you can find me on channel six, should you survive. Great.

SPEAKER_14 25:12

Oh, let's go back to the bar.

SPEAKER_04 25:14

I feel a little like gross going into what he's you know, like following his plan. You know?

SPEAKER_14 25:19

I mean, we need information, I get it, but try not to think of it as following a plan. Try to think of it as sniffing out uh clues.

unknown 25:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 25:27

Yeah, we're gonna outsmart him at his own game. Question mark. We got this.

SPEAKER_14 25:32

Wow, that was really smart. Okay, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, that's what happens when you often work by yourself. You have to be smart. Let's go to the check the TV.

SPEAKER_06 25:43

When you come back out into the room, you find uh a man in a uh a black trench coat.

SPEAKER_18 25:52

Why are you here? You probably did it! Mark!

SPEAKER_06 25:55

Holding a glass with uh a brown liquid with a couple ice cubes in it. Not Mark. Oh.

unknown 26:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 26:04

Thanks for not blowing the building up, by the way. Why did I suggest though, next time you enter a crime scene, shut the door behind you?

SPEAKER_14 26:12

Hmm.

SPEAKER_06 26:12

Nice.

SPEAKER_14 26:13

Really missing a lot with the door, aren't I? Opening the door, closing the door.

SPEAKER_06 26:19

Yeah, I had to do both. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 26:20

Lots of notes. Oh, you know what? It's good to it's good to get feedback. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 26:23

That's really that's super smart. I like your aesthetic.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Got it. Shut the doors. Whispers, everything that Chank is trying to be. What should we do next?

SPEAKER_04 26:39

Yeah, channel six, right?

SPEAKER_14 26:40

Channel six.

SPEAKER_09 26:41

You want to watch it. We're all on the same page. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 26:44

Did you hear anything from the TV in the back, or you just heard the dynamite situation?

SPEAKER_06 26:49

I'd like to remind you once again about open doors.

SPEAKER_14 26:52

Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Right. You can hear through. Right, right, right. You can hear right an open door. Let's turn the TV on.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

This guy's cool. Just turn on the TV. You turn on the TV and you see the end of a message, uh, because it took you a little while to get the.

SPEAKER_12 27:07

We were yapping too much.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

And you just, you just see, you see this man. He's in a green and orange striped suit. He's got big green glasses and a top hat that's also pinstriped with uh bright colors.

SPEAKER_14 27:21

My god, that outfit is so ugly.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

And he goes, You can find me there! And it goes, God damn it. But luckily it's on a loop and it starts again. Hello, citizens of Grimsburg. Boy, do we have a fun night of trivia coming your way tonight. You may notice my guests behind me. And you see behind him there's three people, all in bulky mascot costumes. One is an a MIME mascot, one is a giraffe mascot, and the third is a hot dog mascot with a mustache. If you can believe it, we've got some amazing stars joining us tonight. Between these three mascots, we have the mayor himself, Mr. O'Mare, the opera diva scarlet cantante, and our very special guest, Mr. Voto Cartellini. The big question of the night. The fun is, this is a trivia question that will be true in the future. Mr. Vautto Cartellini died on this date wearing what kind of mascot costume? Call the toll-free number on your screen and get your guesses in now. The mascot with the most votes at the end of the hour dies first. But don't worry, I'll give you three chances. Ah, goodness me, the calls are already flooding in. Hey Cartellini, look who can bring in an audience now. But let's not forget about our mini-game. There's only one place in town where these three mascots can get together. You can find me there.

SPEAKER_14 28:39

A hot dog with a mustache, a mime, and a third thing. What was the third one?

SPEAKER_07 28:45

A giraffe.

SPEAKER_14 28:46

The zoo. It wasn't a hockey player? Uh that was one also.

SPEAKER_06 28:52

Everyone roll history checks for me. Surely I actually heard it. Whisper's new to the city. He only knows a five.

SPEAKER_14 28:58

Yeah, a nine. Lupa's not doing a lot of extra critical activities. 12.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

A 12. With a 12 and a 13, you two recognize two of the mascots. The mustache on the hot dog, you know as uh Uncle Weenie, who is the mascot for Uncle Weenie's, which is sort of like the Wetzels pretzels of Grimsburg. Um and ran deal with him once. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 29:22

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

It's from the brand deal. Um, and you also recognize the giraffe as the mascot for um salad jungle.

SPEAKER_04 29:30

Oh, the mall, the food court. The mall. Right?

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:33

I think that's where we shot all those promos.

SPEAKER_04 29:35

Yeah, we we did a live show there for kids.

SPEAKER_09 29:37

We had salads and hot dogs, and I can't think of any other place that would have both of those things.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

Well, I had um I went to a movie and had an Orange Julius.

SPEAKER_06 29:45

Without me? Weren't they teenage superheroes?

SPEAKER_14 29:48

Have you done anything besides go do promo activities? Have you done any crime fighting? Yeah, we absolutely have crumb fighting.

SPEAKER_07 29:58

She doesn't even know what it's called.

SPEAKER_09 30:00

We're halfway through our first investigation. We got this. We're almost done. We've basically wrapped this up. Let's go to the food court. Whisper finishes his drink.

SPEAKER_04 30:10

Hey, Mark. I mean, sorry, not Mark. Are you coming with us?

SPEAKER_14 30:13

It would be nice to have another adult. Another? Excuse you! I'm older than them! Her voice gets really maybe you should have one of these. Oh, I can't till next year.

SPEAKER_06 30:29

This is like Arnold Palmer. It's two in the afternoon. So dark.

SPEAKER_14 30:41

But it looks so cool and edgy. The mall. It's the mall. You're headed to the mall. Yeah, it'd be cool if you came in.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

How do you guys get around? I imagine you, I imagine you on a motorcycle.

SPEAKER_14 30:53

Very motorcycle.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Absolutely. Very motorcycle coated.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Well, I haven't taken the bus.

SPEAKER_09 30:58

Yeah, one of the police officers is like a big fan, so he just kind of like takes me around a crime scenes.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

Don't lead with that. Do you do anything?

SPEAKER_06 31:08

Whisper doesn't know where the mall is.

SPEAKER_14 31:12

Do you wanna Do you wanna follow me? Do you have a blessing?

SPEAKER_06 31:14

Yeah, he's just gonna he's just gonna wait until one of the others starts heading in a direction confidently. I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_14 31:20

I'm gonna get on the bike and go.

SPEAKER_04 31:22

Okay, well, it's the it's it's the the one on the south side, right?

SPEAKER_09 31:25

So we used to get around with our the limo drove driven by our our gnome butler and whose name is gadget specialist.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Rad. You both get like little pings on your uh you have like little wristwatches and you get like little like ding ding ding ding ding go for fern.

SPEAKER_18 31:47

Oh hey kids, it's Rad! Hi, oh hi Rad. Hey, uh, do you need me to pick you up from the crime scene?

SPEAKER_09 31:52

Yeah, we need a ride.

SPEAKER_18 31:53

You need me to come pick you up. Yeah, that's it. Could you bring two cars? Just bring the stretch. Physically no. I'm just one gnome. That's all I got. I can't do that. We can ride one limo. That's great.

SPEAKER_04 32:07

We have lots of friends.

SPEAKER_18 32:08

Well, that's great. Do you want me to pick up some snacks on the way?

SPEAKER_14 32:10

Yes. We're going to the food court. Oh.

SPEAKER_09 32:13

Okay, fine. Kill the snacks, Rad. We gotta go.

SPEAKER_14 32:16

Okay, I'm just I'm just around the corner. I'll come, I'll be there in a second.

SPEAKER_09 32:19

Do you want to ride in our limo? Sure.

unknown 32:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_14 32:22

I'm not riding in the limo. Goodbye. Assume them all.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

Alright, so Lupa takes off on a motorcycle. QLJ and Whisper hop in the back of a limo, driven by Rad the Gnome, their butler, and they're following behind Lupa. So we see Lupa on a motorcycle followed by a stretched limousine. I think this makes you our security.

SPEAKER_11 32:48

I was just saying it's giving us 2 p.m.

SPEAKER_09 32:53

light traffic.

SPEAKER_04 32:54

I'm also picturing a white limousine. Isn't anybody else picturing white?

SPEAKER_09 32:57

Yeah, with but like a big QLJ.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

There's a picture of your faces with when you're like kids on it, just giving thumbs up. Just plants and sparkles.

SPEAKER_14 33:10

No. So funny. I'm like flooring. I'm like trying.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

I'm going as fast as I can.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Brad is keeping up with you. This little gnome is a is a skilled driver.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

Every time you just make it through a light before it turns red, he also makes it through the light before.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

These banking terms, he's fishtailing out the limo side to keep up with you.

SPEAKER_11 33:35

God damn it.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

You roll up to the mall and the police are there. They they the whole city heard the message. They sort of figured out as well.

SPEAKER_11 33:47

Well, they heard the malls on TV.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

They heard it the first time. So it's surrounded by police and y'all roll up.

SPEAKER_14 33:55

Is it an outdoor mall? What's the mall situation?

SPEAKER_00 33:56

So this is this is um it is an indoor mall. The police are surrounding the entrance to the food court, which is the center of the mall, and then like the shops are kind of in the back and go out. But there's entrances on either end, too. The police are also covering. Um police are at each entrance. Do you roll up right to the food court entrance? Because that's kind of where you were going.

SPEAKER_09 34:14

Dap up one of the police officers. Be like, SUP. We're here to check out the we've got it from here. Can we introduce it? Oh no, wait, it's JQL. Yeah. Or JLQ.

SPEAKER_04 34:25

Well, actually, it's JL.

SPEAKER_07 34:26

Or QLJ.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

It's one of those combinations. QLJ.

SPEAKER_04 34:31

Actually, it's Fernal Force, but it's good to see you two dawn.

SPEAKER_00 34:35

Oh, are you guys are you guys not QLJ?

SPEAKER_04 34:38

Uh no, we thought we we would work better uh apart on this one. But don't worry, we got it covered.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Oh, well, well, so here's the thing. Like, if you guys were still QLJ, I'm sure I could say, you know, go on right through. But um, I don't think I can just say uh Fernal Force is coming. Like, you know, the higher-ups aren't gonna like that. So uh you guys should stay out. Let the officers take care of it.

SPEAKER_14 34:59

I want to I don't want to talk to the police. I want to go around them. I want to go in a window. We're distracting them. Yeah, while they're yapping with the police.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

No, no, no, no autographs right now.

SPEAKER_09 35:14

Well, you know, but maybe if we show you some of our new powers, maybe you'll just be on on board. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll we'll try to cause a distraction.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Yeah, okay. You're intentionally trying to cause distraction? Yes. Um by showcasing your powers. Yes. I guess give me a performance check. How tall are the buildings here? So it is a mall in a big city. The mall itself is probably just a two-story mall. Okay. It's not too tall. But like the buildings across uh well, they're kind of far because there is a parking lot. Um, but I guess behind the mall there's some buildings that are like six or seven stories, probably. I'm gonna jump onto the roof. You're gonna go to the roof? I just got a ten.

SPEAKER_04 35:51

I got an 18.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

So you how what how what display of your powers are you gonna do to fancy them?

SPEAKER_04 35:57

I think it's that I just vine whip them. Thorn whip them.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

You're gonna vine whip the police?

SPEAKER_04 36:02

Uh I'm gonna vine whip the sirens so they start going off in their cars.

SPEAKER_00 36:07

Got it. What do what do Vernal's vines look like? Um Do they come out of her body or like do your arms turn into?

SPEAKER_04 36:14

Oh, yeah, her arms turn into vines. Very unsettling. Yeah. Like these. Like they're it's pothos.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Mm-hmm. Oh, they're so skinny. Are the leaves like blades?

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

You have you have skinny pothos arms, but the leaves are sharp and bladed.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

And you slam into a police car, um, or you slap the sirens of the police car and just like chop them off the car.

SPEAKER_04 36:37

No, it's dexterous. And so it's like, yes, it could be deadly, but I'm just flicking the switch.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Okay, so instead of doing any power or any like show of force, you're just you're just growing a vine into the window and turn on the siren. Oh wow! Hey, hey, that was pretty cool. Hey, look at those vines.

SPEAKER_14 36:55

Yeah, I couldn't do this before. Can I message whisper and ask if there's is there a vent or something up there?

SPEAKER_00 37:00

Do you have message?

SPEAKER_14 37:01

I do. Oh, I love message.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

Absolutely good. Let me make a roll for these cops, actually, real quick.

SPEAKER_09 37:05

What's what's this guy doing over here? Just lightly juggling purple daggers in the background.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

Nobody's paying any attention to you. The cops got a natural six, so they're gosh. So they're distracted by primarily by fernal force. Nobody notices Shank. Uh, but the cops are distracted. Make a stealth, you two can make stealth checks. Um, or if you have that ability, you can just you can sneak right by. 19. 19.

SPEAKER_14 37:31

I rolled a natural 20. Yay!

SPEAKER_00 37:35

Natural 20. Okay, just t just tell me how you enter. Like, what do you do?

SPEAKER_14 37:39

Well, I have a my primary weapon is the longbow, and I have arrows, and I have a rope. And I'm gonna like tie the rope, like, tie the rope to my belt and shoot the arrow. Whisper, can you just can you just catch? Can you catch catch the arrow? Thank you. Shoot the arrow up to the roof.

SPEAKER_06 37:55

Whisper steps aside, lets the arrow go past, and picks up the rope once the arrow has landed.

SPEAKER_14 38:01

It just would have been cooler if you'd caught the roof. That's fine.

SPEAKER_06 38:03

Whisper's very willowy frame does not denote somebody who wants to snatch arrows out of midair.

SPEAKER_14 38:08

She should work on it to be really cool. Man, sometimes it is nice to have somebody with you, isn't it? Talking to myself as she's climbing the rope.

unknown 38:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 38:17

Up to the roof.

SPEAKER_00 38:18

Yeah, with Whisper's assistance, you're you're both go completely unnoticed onto the roof. It's okay, Dawn.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

I know you're I know that there's been a lot of changes happening at home. I I know that Cindy is has Meredith now more than half full time.

SPEAKER_07 38:34

Yeah, the judge, the judge gave her three-quarters custody, so uh that's that's more than half full time.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

So uh yeah, so I don't get to I get I barely get to see her on the weekends anymore.

SPEAKER_03 38:45

Yeah, that's so sad.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

Yeah, it's not good.

SPEAKER_03 38:47

No. How does Fern know this much about this grown man's life?

SPEAKER_14 38:50

I don't like their relationship.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

These two are real tight with cops.

SPEAKER_14 38:55

Yeah, it's a bad vibe, dude.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

Why don't you two give me one more persuasion check and I'll say one? I can say one of you will make it. If you want to help the other, you can do that. But I'm stealthy, so I can You can abandon your brother and sneak in if it fails.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Great.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

I think I just start walking away slowly.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

No, so what'd you get? Just a 13. Just a 13? Yeah, yeah, but I mean you know, um uh I saw your sister did some cool stuff. I don't think you your juggling act is uh gonna make it on itself.

SPEAKER_09 39:30

No, they're knives now, but like it's gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

Yeah. Are oh those is that what those are now?

SPEAKER_09 39:36

Yeah, well, like before they were like sparkles, but now they're like deadly knives. Hey, yeah, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 39:41

Um why don't you uh But they're psychic knives. Look!

SPEAKER_14 39:46

You're knifing the cops? I'm up there, like, well knifing, yeah, just sticking it on the room.

SPEAKER_00 39:56

You stuck it in he stuck it into himself, just shanked himself. Uh Vernon, what did you do?

SPEAKER_04 40:01

Um, I just started walking towards them all.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Did you do a self-check?

SPEAKER_04 40:04

I did. I had a 15.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Got another natural six on that. Yeah, so you you sneak away, and I guess you can find the rope and climb up after Lupa and get on the roof too if you want.

SPEAKER_04 40:13

Hell yeah, I do. Can I roll acrobatics? Get off my rope, get off my rope! Yeah, hey, look, from one vine to another, I got a 15 again.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Lupa's like shaking the rope a little bit and you're just climbing right up.

SPEAKER_04 40:26

I think it's because like I'm my vines are entwining around the rope.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

Uh does anyone want to help Shank over there? Now you've got three wheels on the roof, just Shank talking to the cop.

SPEAKER_14 40:39

Yes, I'm I'm going to use the message. Stop talking to the cops.

SPEAKER_09 40:46

Whoa, who's that? Come on. Are you my conscience?

SPEAKER_03 40:52

Did my frontal lobe just develop?

SPEAKER_09 40:57

So this is what puberty is.

SPEAKER_14 40:59

No!

SPEAKER_09 41:00

Okay, what should I do?

SPEAKER_14 41:02

Go around the back.

SPEAKER_09 41:04

I'll drop another rope for you. Okay. So sorry, guys. Uh busy day. Gotta go. Alright, see you later. Try to give me a stealth check. Bring the limo around the back. Sneak out the side.

SPEAKER_14 41:18

Bring the limo! Did I say bring the limo around the back?

SPEAKER_00 41:23

Rad, Rad is Rad pulls up on the back and just goes, beep beep!

SPEAKER_09 41:27

It's an 11.

SPEAKER_08 41:30

What's your stealth? What's your you don't have anything? It's a plus five. I can't roll for shit.

SPEAKER_00 41:35

Alright, the cop's got a 16 this time.

SPEAKER_08 41:38

No!

SPEAKER_18 41:39

What? Where the guy? Oh, he pulled, he pulled up the limo around the back. He's trying to get that guy.

SPEAKER_04 41:45

Hey, QLJ. That's us. We're doing our special move.

SPEAKER_09 41:49

You're right. You guys are right. We're QLJ. QLJ. I was just pulling a prank on me. You know who I am.

SPEAKER_07 41:56

QLJC. Oh, your sister's up on the roof. Hey, look at that.

SPEAKER_09 41:59

Yeah. Just a little bit of a come on. You know who we are. Come on. You guys know uh CNN. We'll be out in a jiffy.

SPEAKER_04 42:09

If we do our tagline, will you just let us in here?

SPEAKER_00 42:12

If you do the tagline, I'll let you, I'll let Q. I mean, I'm gonna let QLJ take care of it. Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_04 42:17

Great, we got it. Quick, quick, little justice.

SPEAKER_07 42:22

We are here. Wow. That was incredible.

SPEAKER_14 42:30

That's not a Neppo baby superhero model. 12-minute episode.

SPEAKER_09 42:33

It has to be a quick theme song.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

Hey, can I uh just one more thing before I let you go. Can I get an autograph of uh QLJ?

SPEAKER_04 42:42

Uh yeah, sure. I I pull a little leaf off my vine and uh we sign it with his knife.

SPEAKER_07 42:48

Together.

SPEAKER_04 42:50

And I throw it down.

SPEAKER_00 42:52

Well, QLJ. This is incredible. My niece is gonna love this. Hey, hey, let us know how it goes in there. We're just gonna keep standing out here, probably not going in, doing nothing.

SPEAKER_09 43:00

Okay. We'll do. Thanks. You guys are the best. Are you two finished yet?

SPEAKER_17 43:05

Talking to the fucking cops! We're in, we're in, we're in. They've been up here for what feels like days. But what did you find out?

unknown 43:15

On the roof?

SPEAKER_06 43:16

Thanks for waiting for us. Alright, let's go. It's a 15 investigation for roof access, service entrance. Excellent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 43:24

There is anything.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

There is a door, um uh a roof access door to stairs that would that would take you down into the building. It is locked from the uh inside. So uh there is a door that you could utilize. Um there's also like air conditioning vents and things like that that you can potentially use. You have thieves tools? If you would like to try and rock this door open.

SPEAKER_14 43:47

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_00 43:48

I usually do like a sleight of hands.

SPEAKER_14 43:50

Okay, I did roll a 27 on the thieves tools. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

Was it just unlocked?

SPEAKER_14 43:57

It was unlocked the whole time. You know me and Doors.

SPEAKER_00 44:02

You easily crack this door open with your tools. The door uh pops open and there's some stairs down in there that goes kind of into like if you take them down, it goes into sort of the back areas of the mall. Like, you know how the malls have those like back hallways for employees, and there's like the loading dock areas. Um, it takes you down sort of behind where all the stores are.

SPEAKER_14 44:24

You smell something? You said to sniff around, and that's I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_06 44:29

Just to be clear, do you have wolf powers?

SPEAKER_14 44:33

Sorta. Kind of. A little. I'm working on it.

SPEAKER_06 44:36

Let Lupa let Lupa do the sniffing then, perhaps.

SPEAKER_14 44:39

Oh, it would be better if I sniffed. But I love the effort. I love the energy.

SPEAKER_00 44:44

There's like a map of the mall that's like food court this way. You are here. Amazing. It shows you're exactly just like you're down the hall from the food court.

SPEAKER_04 44:55

I think I like open my mouth to like the hey, look at and then I don't say anything.

SPEAKER_14 45:00

Let me just keep walking. Let's keep we're gonna keep going.

SPEAKER_00 45:02

How would you like to approach the food court?

SPEAKER_14 45:04

I'm loath to say we should spread out after police debacle. But it does seem unwise to just walk in through the front entrance of the food court.

SPEAKER_04 45:16

Yeah, I think we take a second to look around and before we jump into it.

SPEAKER_09 45:19

Stealthily. Stealthily. Yeah, we should totally team up, and I'm I'm gonna team up with Whisper.

SPEAKER_14 45:26

Wow, girls and boys, how original.

SPEAKER_06 45:30

In this case, I think it's quiet and loud.

SPEAKER_14 45:35

Did you not see my Nat 20 stealth?

SPEAKER_06 45:37

No, I I didn't notice it at all.

SPEAKER_03 45:39

Hey.

SPEAKER_06 45:40

Yeah, give me a let's get a group stuff check.

SPEAKER_14 45:43

Well, I got a 23. 15.

SPEAKER_06 45:45

11. 16.

SPEAKER_14 45:47

So overall, we score better. Yeah. Team girl.

SPEAKER_00 45:51

And I will say I'll just tell you the bad guys got a natural one. Oh, they don't be knowing shit. Are you are you splitting up into two groups? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 46:01

Okay, cool. Well, because we know the hot dog stand and we know the salad bar.

SPEAKER_14 46:05

And then there's a third one, which was a hockey player. I think so, and then maybe a it was a mime. I said mime, and then you were like hockey player.

SPEAKER_04 46:13

Is there no hockey player?

SPEAKER_00 46:14

No, I think you were just thinking of heated rivalry.

SPEAKER_04 46:17

I mean, I guess I had that tab open in my head. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 46:20

I think that's just always open for you, is there's always a hockey player. Or I said a hockey player and it was my fault, and I'm thinking about it here.

SPEAKER_14 46:26

Maybe, well, well, it is a it was mime. I wrote down mime.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

For Lupa, why don't you roll a history check with advantage? 15. You remember a a phone conversation right as you were rolling up to the bar, and we flashback to that. Hello? Hey, uh, hey sis. Um hey, I was just wondering, um, are you gonna be uh working late in the prison again tonight?

SPEAKER_14 46:48

Uh yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotta I have a long night tonight. Are you okay? You need something?

SPEAKER_00 46:53

I'm fine. It's just like uh uh I ate the last of the snacks. Can you can you stop by Mimi's meatballs on the way home and and like pick up some food? Of course, Mimi's meatballs on the bottom. Okay, but can you like change the bag that you bring it home in? Because uh the meat the meatball stuffs are really good, but the the my mascot like scares the hell out of me.

SPEAKER_14 47:11

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll I'll throw the bag out before I come in.

SPEAKER_00 47:15

Okay, thank you. Um have fun at work. How's the prison?

SPEAKER_14 47:20

Oh, you know, so fun. Um, so fun. I love the prison. And it's and it's great, and there's no reason I I love the prison. It's great. I love it.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

It's cool. Uh just a question. Um how come you give me this uh pay phone number to call you and not the number to the prison? Like can I just call the prison?

SPEAKER_14 47:39

No, because it's it's a classified kind of thing, right? And I don't want anybody tracking you down. I don't I just don't want the prison to know anything about where we are or where we live. It's just nobody it's not the prison's business. Someone said. Listen, it's just safer this way, okay? You just have to trust me.

SPEAKER_00 48:01

All right. I guess that makes sense to me. I'll see you when you get home. Don't forget the meatballs. I will extra onions.

SPEAKER_14 48:07

Okay, extra onions, and I won't, and I'll throw the mime bag out before I come in. Okay, thank you. Love you. Draw the curtains. I love you.

SPEAKER_00 48:13

Love you. See you when you get home.

SPEAKER_14 48:19

The mime, it's meatballs. The meatballs. Mimi.

SPEAKER_17 48:23

Oh, memey's. I always thought that was a a joker. No, no, it's a mime. It's a mime.

SPEAKER_14 48:28

It's all M's. I don't know. I don't, I don't my brother loves them. My brother loves the meatballs.

SPEAKER_04 48:33

Oh, you you have a brother? Yeah. Yeah, I have a younger brother. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_09 48:37

Does he fight crime too?

SPEAKER_04 48:39

No. You yell from across the floor.

SPEAKER_03 48:43

I forgot we split up. We did, we did decide to split up.

SPEAKER_09 48:46

Whisper's like, shh, the message is still going. This is just my conscience document.

SPEAKER_03 48:51

I have a brother?

SPEAKER_14 48:55

Yeah, the meatballs are his favorite, but the mime really freaks him out.

SPEAKER_04 48:58

That's fair. He's creepy. I don't know why you would make the mime a mascot. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. Like froyo or like a bakery or something.

SPEAKER_03 49:05

Or the Cinnabon Mime.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

With that, we cut over the Shank and Whisperer. Let's see what Shank and Whisperer are up to.

SPEAKER_09 49:19

Hankering for Cinnabons. I feel like it's going on in my brain. Um I don't think they're open right now.

unknown 49:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 49:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're so right. You're so right. Uh sneaking. What's uh check out the hot dog?

SPEAKER_06 49:37

I felt felt pretty shady. Looking to see if there are any guards or people nearby. Right, right, right, right, right. I'll look too. Maybe you should look for something like security cameras or other things that might notice for young people in brightly colored at least for the rest of you, brightly colored outfits.

SPEAKER_14 49:59

I'm wearing black, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 50:00

Your black is very bright.

SPEAKER_14 50:03

That's what they always say.

SPEAKER_09 50:11

Yeah, okay, okay, cool. I'll look out for the CC TV Crim Crimsberg TV.

SPEAKER_00 50:17

Uh so the two groups sneak around. Um that guy's got a natural one um to find you, so you easily sort of surround. And since you're very well snuck at this point, you can kind of obviously see there's a big it's a it is a food court, it's a round food court, and on the back, um, away from you, so you're in a big circle, you two are kind of coming in from the voms on either side, and in the back, on kind of a semicircle is the three restaurants, and hanging by their arms is the three mascots above each of their like corresponding restaurant, and there's a camera crew, and there's also two big groups of like guards with like bats and machetes and like all kinds of like little weird things. No one with a gun um that you've noticed, but they're all around there, and in the center is they're also all wearing, so the one big group on the left is all wearing like these big A mascot costumes, and the other side they're all wearing big Q qu costumes. Um so there's a bunch of QA's, and and like most of them are just kind of like standing around like, so can you move very well in these costumes? I just feel like it's hard to put my arms down. Like if we're if we're trying to, you know, put protect this guy, like it's fine, he's paying us a lot of money. I think he uh robbed the Cartellini guy, so uh, you know, money's good. What are you gonna say? Yeah, I guess so. It's just like if there is a threat, I'm I'm in a big queue, okay? And so I'm very limited in what I can do. Right? I just feel like this is dangerous. Money's good. Just take the money, okay? He's better than the other guy I used to work for. You see, there's one big Q like struggling to like focus a camera that's pointing towards question mark, and he's there. I'd just like to thank our sponsors today, Mr. Cartellini. Uh, thanks to his organization for fueling this entertainment for all of the citizens of Grimsburg. And he continues to go off um on a little monologue as you all sneak up. There's a lot of them.

SPEAKER_14 52:22

Yeah, well, should we go for for them? Should we go for him, or should we go for the people? We don't want these innocent people to die. No. What are they being hung by?

SPEAKER_00 52:29

Um, it's ropes. So, like basically from the ceiling or like from the light fixtures that are above them.

SPEAKER_04 52:34

How b how far up are they between like the floor and their feet?

SPEAKER_00 52:37

Between their floor and the feet, it's they're like a little bit higher than normal ceiling, so there's probably four feet, but they're also all like right behind a counter that's you know counter height.

SPEAKER_04 52:46

Oh, they're b they're in there.

SPEAKER_00 52:47

So they're like in the restaurants. So like imagine these like yeah, they're like behind the counter, like floating like in the middle of the space of each of their corresponding restaurants.

SPEAKER_06 52:55

So to be clear restaurants. We cannot see where they would land if they were to fall at this moment.

SPEAKER_00 53:00

You can't see behind the counter where they would land if they fell, but uh you can see the mascots. And there's question mark, and we're coming up to the hour here. So far, let's see who's winning. So far, it looks like Uncle Weenie is up next, and he pulls out uh six shooter. You got another three minutes to get those boats in, otherwise, Uncle Weenie's gonna get fried.

SPEAKER_04 53:24

How how far can you? We have three minutes to figure out what we need to do.

SPEAKER_03 53:29

Correct. How how far how far can you send those fill-year-old plant situations?

SPEAKER_04 53:36

Uh great question. Um, well, um, I can do 30 feet.

SPEAKER_14 53:41

I was thinking, like, can you shoot a vine up from the ground and grab his foot or something?

SPEAKER_04 53:46

Um no.

SPEAKER_14 53:48

Amazing.

SPEAKER_04 53:48

I don't think so. Wait, let me see what else I have.

SPEAKER_06 53:52

Twister suggests that we fall back to a location where we can just strategize. It'll also allow us to reposition.

SPEAKER_14 53:58

Okay. We're gonna re-convention quickly. We have two minutes and 30 seconds. Okay, we reconvene.

SPEAKER_09 54:04

Alright, well, we saw that there's a back to a lot of these shops, so maybe we can get to the back and maybe sneak to the back of Mr. Hot Dogs and try to get him from the back storeroom.

SPEAKER_17 54:12

It's Uncle Weenie!

SPEAKER_14 54:16

Lupa really likes Uncle Weenie's I guess. Darius never wants it though. He only ever wants to be balls.

SPEAKER_06 54:22

We'll need to do all three of them simultaneously.

SPEAKER_14 54:24

Yeah, we can do all at the same time.

SPEAKER_06 54:26

Somebody's gonna have to be the bait.

SPEAKER_04 54:28

Um, what what what qualities should bait have?

SPEAKER_06 54:31

Are any of you bulletproof?

SPEAKER_04 54:33

No, but I continue to a tree.

SPEAKER_06 54:36

Trees are pretty bulletproof.

SPEAKER_10 54:39

If that would help, that feels like the toughest one. That feels yes.

SPEAKER_02 54:49

Okay, sure. Let me top tree brands. Brands!

SPEAKER_09 54:52

Brands brands very into brands. QLJ.

SPEAKER_14 54:58

QLJ, very into the branding. So why not? You take the Weenie, I'll take the mime, and you take the third one, the giraffe.

SPEAKER_06 55:11

Got it. Get them down, get them into the back room, into the halls, and then come out and help deal with it. Deal with the question mark.

SPEAKER_14 55:19

Yes. Okay, this is a good plan. Okay. What kind of what brand of tree are you gonna be with?

SPEAKER_04 55:25

A white oak or a coast live oak and ironwood are the most naturally resistant to bullets.

SPEAKER_06 55:30

Obviously the iron wood.

SPEAKER_14 55:37

Yeah, I'll turn into a tree. Yeah, iron ironwood tree. Okay. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_06 55:41

You'll only need to take their attention for a few moments.

SPEAKER_14 55:44

But we're gonna have to make sure that the three of us are in position before you do this.

SPEAKER_04 55:48

Okay, well, what kind of signal do you want to give me?

SPEAKER_09 55:50

Just before the three minutes. Uh go at at I don't know, 60 seconds.

SPEAKER_04 55:54

Just message me when you're ready. I'll message you when you're ready.

SPEAKER_17 55:56

When we're ready. Okay. Whisper, I trust you.

SPEAKER_06 56:02

Shank, when we pull everybody back into the halls, can we tie them all together? I'm sorry, you were talking to me, and it was really great. Just I wasn't listening. When we get the hostages, tie them together. We don't want Carlini escaping. Okay, got it. Uh, let's go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_12 56:18

Okay, we're going out. Good talk.

SPEAKER_00 56:22

I'll have you do individual stealth checks, and then I will have the two swarms and the and question mark do checks when it's time. Um, I'm kind of interested in whatever Fernal is gonna Fernal Force is gonna do. Um for mechanics. I don't know if anyone at home is this is a ridiculous podcast, so I don't know if anyone at home is crazy about the mechanics, but if you're playing along on your board at home. If you're playing along on your board at home, uh Fernal Force for the large plants such as trees, um, is brown bear. Um is her wild-shaped druid. So I gave her she's working with brown bear stats um as a giant tree, if you're curious. 30 seconds left, and it looks like Uncle Wiener is gonna say go. Go to his maker. Question mark is loading the six shooter. I forgot to load the gun.

SPEAKER_04 57:18

Okay, so just an acorn falls from the ceiling onto question mark. What the hell? And as he looks up, giant tree limbs grow up and a canopy of foliage appears above him and the uh other QA's.

SPEAKER_00 57:39

There's a tree in here!

SPEAKER_04 57:42

True. And then it slaps him across the face.

unknown 57:45

Ah!

SPEAKER_00 57:46

Um, okay, great.

SPEAKER_04 57:47

Everyone's a nice tight backhand.

SPEAKER_00 57:50

Go ahead and roll initiative.

SPEAKER_18 57:52

That was what I was supposed to do, right?

SPEAKER_00 57:56

Loop is so stressed.

SPEAKER_06 58:00

Whisper's got a 22.

SPEAKER_14 58:01

I rolled a 13.

SPEAKER_06 58:03

I got a six.

SPEAKER_14 58:05

I got a 10.

SPEAKER_06 58:06

I am going to swap my initiative with Fernal.

SPEAKER_05 58:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

Fernal now has a 22. Either way, I'm gonna let Fernal get this slap in because I just can't see a way that question mark was gonna expect the tree to slap him. I just can't justify it.

SPEAKER_14 58:29

And I think that's so fair.

SPEAKER_04 58:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:30

Um, so go ahead and make an attack roll.

SPEAKER_04 58:32

Okie dokie. Uh, that is a 15.

SPEAKER_00 58:36

A 15 misses.

SPEAKER_04 58:38

What? Okay, can I do that? Why is question mark so jacked? Can I multi-attack? Bears make two attacks.

SPEAKER_00 58:45

Oh, that's right, you're a bear. Go ahead and uh yeah, make another attack.

SPEAKER_04 58:49

Now that is a 20.

SPEAKER_00 58:50

A 20 is definitely gonna hit.

SPEAKER_04 58:52

Okay, so one one swoop of a branch distracts him and misses, and the other one then punches him in the stomach. This tree just punched me.

SPEAKER_00 59:03

I have a feeling this isn't a normal tree, boys.

SPEAKER_04 59:06

That's a 15 of damn it.

SPEAKER_00 59:09

I know this move. This has to be that quick little thing. Quick little justice. There it is. See? See? Trees trees can't talk normally. Boys, let's get chopping. I wanna hear Timber. And then actually, first of the initiative is Fernal Force again because of the Switch initiative.

SPEAKER_04 59:36

Oh nice. Let's go. Uh so then I'm gonna do the exact same thing. Um, this time I want to uh use my first attack to with one arm like wrap it around his neck, and the other one I want to like let it slit his throat.

SPEAKER_00 59:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 59:53

With your tree? With my tree. If anything moves fast enough, it's a blade.

SPEAKER_06 59:57

Now we're talking.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:00

And the three fight people all go.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:03

They all nod in agreement with that. You couldn't see, but all of us raised an appreciative eyebrow.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:09

Um, so that's a 19 for the first attack.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:12

That's gonna hit.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:14

Eight points of damage. And then the second one is a 21 to hit. And that's eight plus four twelve damage. Oh yeah! Put your limbs in the air and wave your legs around like you just don't care. Then I do that with my other branches like this.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:30

I'm getting flanked here, boys. What am I paying you for?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:33

Hey, no need to bark.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:38

Uh next in the initiative is question mark.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:41

Uh-oh. Rahra Raggy.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:43

Well, well, a little miss. And he pulls out a little exclamation point sword. Uh cane sword.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:50

It's a cane sword.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:51

It's a little cane sword, and it looks like a question mark. It's got like a big blingy thing, and it's like that's pretty cool, actually. Yeah. Just describing. No, no, it's a it looks like an exclamation point. Um, no. The grip is black. You can only see the blade and the pommel. I've got the answer for the weakness of the ironwood tree, and that's chopping it down. Uh and he's gonna make three rapier attacks on the tree.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:16

Well, unless it's fungal decay, root and wilt pathogens, extreme wildfires, or high winds, can't hit me.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:25

He rolled the natural one on his first attack.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:27

Let's go!

SPEAKER_00 1:01:29

Um, and then he rolled eighteens on his next two.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:32

Well, um, well, might all do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:35

So he's gonna do six with the first attack and five with the second attack. So, this enemy that I'm using is a performer maestro, and he has an ability that allows him to do add-on psychic damage in addition to his sword attack. However, um, I pulled up a random trivia generator. Um if you get the question right, you can avoid the extra psychic damage.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:03

I'm obsessed. I love trivia. Oh, this is so cool.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:08

Um, alright, so let's hold up. Before you start, is this a team effort?

SPEAKER_14 1:02:13

Or just fern?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:15

Oh, that's a good question. I hadn't thought that far. I think in the spirit of him being uh like a bar trivia owner, those are done in teams. Um and you've got two psychics. So um I'm gonna say that you guys can psychically come up with an answer for Fern. What actor partnered up with Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon movie series?

SPEAKER_14 1:02:38

I got nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:40

Glover.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:40

Glover, Danny Glover.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:42

Daniel Glover. That is correct. You see you see the little burst on the tip of his sword fizzles out. But you've got so good. One more. A poltron is a what? A poll troon? A poltron. A bird? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

Yes, uh something heavy eight, something bird-like.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:11

A poltron is a coward.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:13

Is that trivia or is that homework?

unknown 1:03:16

I don't know.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:18

I just graduated high school.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:21

Like that's an SAT word.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:23

I don't know, but you take an extra four points of psychic damage. Um, next in the initiative is Loopah.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:30

So as a bonus action, I'm gonna cast a spell, your favorite and mine, Hunter's Mark, on Question Mark.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:36

On question mark?

SPEAKER_14 1:03:37

Hunter's Mark, on question mark. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:39

Are you going to continue hiding?

SPEAKER_14 1:03:41

Oh. Well, no, I have to get the guy down. The meatball guy. So if I'm behind the counter, how like is it like a situation where I can reach up and grab?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:51

Is it like I need to cut what's the how far up are I mean sh her hands are gonna be probably like eight feet in the air.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:59

Up on that counter. Chapel of the sword.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:01

I don't have a s I don't have a sword! How do you not have a sword?

SPEAKER_06 1:04:03

Do you have an axe?

SPEAKER_14 1:04:04

I literally don't have a sword though. In my I mean, I what I'm talking about is like Indian Debion to like make the sword attack.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:10

Which is okay. I'll let you make I mean you can use the dagger attack as your sword attack.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:14

Okay. I'm gonna use the blades on the end of my long bow. So cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:19

Lupa's Lupa's like finds like duct tape underneath the counter and is like taping a dagger onto her bow to get a little extra reach.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:26

Yeah. Um, so I'm gonna try and attack the the rope.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:30

Great. It's not too hard. It's uh, I'll tell you that the rope has one HP. Um cool. And it it's its AC is 12.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:39

Well, I fear I missed. I rolled a 10. Oh no. Um, but I do get two attacks per action. Okay. So I can try again.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:48

Get in there. Get a second attack.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:50

Amazing. That can't be right. I missed. I missed my time.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:57

Just no shock seeing a tree slapping.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:01

What's going on with the tree?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:02

You just see from behind the counter, Lupa pops up and just goes and then goes back down and then comes up a second time. And then goes back down behind the counter.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:15

My cool longbow sword.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:16

Oh my gosh. Uh, I am gonna I'm like, because you missed, I feel like I should just keep letting you hide, but I do feel like there needs to be a perception check for those two whiffs.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:26

Um that's not that's so fair. Would it be giving like cool stealthy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:34

There is a giant tree smacking a guy. Okay, so there's a giant tree smacking guy that's probably stealing a lot of the intention. Reasonable? Yes. I will I will make a perception check for these two uh with disadvantage um if you would like to make a stealth check with advantage. I will give you all of the all the perks, but I rolled a 28 on my stealth check with advantage. Okay, well, I'll see if we get a natural 20 with. Two natural 20s. I got an eight.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:04

So my attack sucked, but I was very secretive about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:08

Yes. And I don't believe Hunter's Mark calls any attention to you. I think you just like trigger it. And he doesn't notice that you did that. Up next, I believe it is Whisper.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:20

Since Whisper hasn't heard the startled cries of a recently freed hostage, he's just going to assume that Lupa has forgotten the plan.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:28

No! No, I'm doing my best!

SPEAKER_06 1:06:32

Whisper yanks the door open, runs in behind the counter of I honestly do not remember which fast food stall uh he gets in. You're in um salad junk or salad jungle with the giraffe.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:45

Salad jungle.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:46

Salad jungle. First things first, is there a safe landing spot for the person who's hanging?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:51

Yes, it is just the floor behind. Um it does look like um question mark was just planning on the old the old gunshot to the mascot whenever it was their time was up.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:02

All right. Well, uh, since Fernal's doing such a great job causing a distraction, uh, Whisper is just going to take a look up there and reach inside his trench coat, and it looks like he throws something and just a flash of blinding night light lances out at the rope.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:19

Ultra blast the rope. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:21

Ultrach blast the rope. That is a 27.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:25

That is shameful after I missed twice. And then it goes across into the one that James and gets them both.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:33

Uh if if they were in, if we were within five feet, I might consider cleave rules. However, um, yeah, you blast that rope, um, and this mascot comes falling to the ground, not very far. You know, they're probably dangling like four feet from their feet. Tuck and roll! Um they did, however, um get an eight on their deck save and they land flat on their ass.

unknown 1:07:54

Ow!

SPEAKER_00 1:07:55

I'm not gonna worry about that right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:57

You're so right. I'll laugh them together. Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:00

There's no vibrato.

unknown 1:08:02

It couldn't.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:02

It could have been a scarcinger.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:08

That's disrupting the instrument.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:10

This is more combat tips from the fight directors.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:12

Yeah. Uh Whisper calls out to uh to Shank to come grab the giraffe and uh gingerly steps out around the counter to check in on Lupa's situation.

SPEAKER_13 1:08:27

Lupa's so bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:30

Seeing seeing seeing a pair of legs still dangling, uh, Whisper fires off his other Eldritch Blast. Oh. Fire two beams.

SPEAKER_14 1:08:40

Well, I could do two, two, but not.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:42

This one is not as good. This one's a 26.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:45

Oh 26 is still gonna hit, believe it or not. Mimi the Mime falls to the ground. Um I'm gonna make another uh disadvantaged uh perception check because we are fighting trees. They did they did bad. As long as you don't roll a natural one, you're good. You're good, you're good. It didn't roll a natural one. What did you roll? It's an eight plus something. Oh yeah, you you're you're good. But yeah, so Mimi the Mime also falls to the ground. They also don't fall very well.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:18

Oh. Well, that's a guy. Yeah, in there.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:21

Judgy Judgy.

SPEAKER_18 1:09:24

Says the trench coat.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:26

Next up in the initiative are these two swarms, the Q's NAs. What am I even paying you guys for? Chop down the tree! That's a 10 to hit.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:36

Uh, that does not hit.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:37

An eleven to hit. Yep, it does hit. A 17 and a 14. So that's uh three hits. I lied, that's two hits. Um I was still using the Maestro's attack bonus, so that first eleven is actually only a nine. Seven piercing damage and four piercing damage on the two that hit.

SPEAKER_15 1:09:57

Okie dokie.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:59

So only two, like, there's a bunch of guys around you with like bats and like uh knives and like little like one guy's just got like a um a wine cork and he's just stabbing.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:10

I think I have Can I uh stabbing with a can I grow little offshoots from the tree that like parry the the hits from their stabs?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:19

Yeah, you're you're just like fighting off you're fighting off half of them. Like half of these guys are like fencing with them with these like little roots that are going out. Yep. Uh but this tree's pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:28

Ungarden.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:34

Alex is shook.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:38

Burn always came up with the puns for me. Really? Shank?

SPEAKER_10 1:10:48

I keep forgetting that your name is Shank!

SPEAKER_00 1:10:53

Speaking of Shank, it is Shank's turn. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:57

Shank sees his sister under siege and is peeking up over the counter and is like trying to choose between helping out his sister and doing the job he was supposed to, and then decides, even though he's going solo, he's gotta protect his sister. And goes for his sneak attack by throwing a psychic knife right into the back of uh of Marco Polo questionnaire. Question mark.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:26

You made him epic.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:29

Marco Polo, yeah. He was already Italian. Uh go ahead make your attack roll. Okay. Which uh I we can say that you were hiding successfully at the top of your turn, so you'll make it with the four. Okay, great.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:40

Both were 18. Oh, so that is two 26s. Uh 26.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:47

26 is is going to hit. Great. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:50

Reg 9 psychic damage and sneak attack damage. That's 18 total damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:57

Yeah, from I I uh describe your your psychic knife going into uh question mark.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:04

Yeah, I think uh uh everybody is facing the tree and not looking and just waits for the right moment, and the knife just hovers over Shanks' shoulder, and as soon as he sees the open, it just sort of shoots forward and right in between the shoulder blades of Marco.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:21

Uh Marco looks over his shoulder and sees you. There's the other one! Now we've got both of Quick Little Justice here. This'll be great for viewers.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:31

Um Shank decides he's gonna go ahead and use the use his offhand dagger attack to cut down the person. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead and pick that up. No longer sneaking. 13. 13 is enough to cut it down.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:45

Literally so annoyed that I rolled two and tens.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:52

Nine damage to the rope. Okay, so Uncle Wiener, um Uncle Wiener lands on his feet and starts running.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:01

No! Get him! Opportunity attack him, pull him down.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:06

You can't hit that bitch. You can do an opportunity attack if you'd like to try and either grab him. He's running right now.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:12

Right now. He's running right now.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:17

I'm getting out of here. His hands are still tied.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:25

Uh that is a 20. Um, a 20 is going to hit. Are you trying to grapple or are you trying to to fuck this guy up?

SPEAKER_09 1:13:33

Psychic damage isn't real damage. It's gonna fry his brain.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:39

Oh, that's not what heroes do.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:43

That's what Shank does.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:46

Okay, yeah. Attack how much how much damage did you?

SPEAKER_09 1:13:50

Uh no, I but definitely like in the in the leg. I at least want to.

SPEAKER_12 1:13:55

I psychic damage him in the leg.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:59

Right. I have one choice. It's to fry your brain. Hope he didn't have any precious memories, Mr. Weenie. Uh, I did. I don't I I want to do non-lethal, but seven damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:12

Seven damage. Okay, he is still up, but he's he you see, Uncle Weenie stops and just starts grabbing his head to start screaming. Yeah. Uh uh. Ah, get out of my head. Is this that kid?

SPEAKER_07 1:14:28

Is this that quick kid?

SPEAKER_18 1:14:32

That quick little justice.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:33

That quick little justice.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:35

It's the shrouded shank, motherfucker. I'm trying around swearing. No, that's our one F word.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:45

Our PG 13 rating.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:47

This guy sounds scary. Trying to mention Netflix. I can't really see.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:53

I can't really see because there's a psychic damage in my leg.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:59

Ever heard of a phantom leg?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:01

Oh my gosh. It's like, can I rely on my leg? I don't know. I don't know. Feeling very disconnected from my left girl. Yeah, out of my body.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:11

Um we are back down. So now we're at zero initiative. Um question mark sees all of you and is going to use a legendary action. Oh, yeah, don't say Beguiling song, but in this case, it's beguiling trivia. Oh love it.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:28

Um it all works. We all went, ooh, we were beguiled.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:34

Uh it's time for the lightning round. And he pulls out this little orb. Oh. Not an orb.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:40

I should Mark's pondering his orb.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:42

He's don't do well against lightning.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:43

He pulls out a little orb and presses a little button and then throws it up in the air. Put on your earmuffs. And they all have like little cute earmuffs and they all put them on. Um, and this orb just starts shouting out rapid-fire questions, like, and it is echoing around the entire space. Whoa. I'll give you two chances. I'll technically do the mechanics of the game, which is a DC-15 wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:09

What if we answer the question right there?

SPEAKER_00 1:16:11

So there's two parts to this. Um, the target has the charmed condition until the end of the performer's next turn if you fail. Uh but for the damage, I will ask you all quiz questions. Nat 20. Nat 20 is gonna pass. 22. 22 is gonna pass.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:26

22.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:26

13 fails.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:28

Oh no! No.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:30

Uh doing so bad.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:31

And Lupa is charmed.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:33

I love trivia. Oh. I got a natural 20.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:36

23.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:37

Not the fucking twins with the natural.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:41

Twinny.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:43

Okay, cool. Um Lupa is now charmed, which just means that you can't attack question mark specifically. But um you are more than welcome to attack the swarms. If you failed, you are going to take 23 damage unless you get your question right. And then it's also if you passed, you will take half damage, uh, which half of 23 would be 11. 11 psychic damage on the pass, unless you answer your trivia question right. Right. Lightning round.

SPEAKER_14 1:17:12

Oh my god, let's lock in, team. Okay, over here.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:16

Let's start with who failed. What color? Or actually, let's end with you because that's the most dramatic. It's the most damage. Let's start with you, Mike. Or Shank, I should say. Um, in your head, uh, a question reverberates. What color is Shibli? Red. It's wine, right?

SPEAKER_14 1:17:36

No, it's white, it's white, it's white, can we all answer this?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:42

Yeah, can we all answer this, or is it just one of one of us? I was gonna say beige.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:46

We'll keep trivia. I was gonna say beige. We'll keep trivia team rules because you are psychically linked and you are psychic yourself. Okay, great.

SPEAKER_14 1:17:53

It's white wine.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:54

I I was gonna say like a like a beige.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:56

Beige? Yes. The answer is white. Just white? White.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:02

That'd be like an off white. Well, white's not white's not a color.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:05

Shank Shank hears white in his head and goes, beige. Um and immediately takes 11 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:13

Oh, white's not a color.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:15

Um moving on over to Fernal, Fernal Force. Um, what English writer died on the same date as Spanish author and poet Miguel de Cervantes?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:25

Uh, Shank. Any ideas?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:28

On an English writer?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:29

Yeah, who died on the same day as Cervantes. Anyone?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:32

Oscar Wilde. No, way much earlier. Earlier. Cervantes is 1600s, isn't he?

SPEAKER_14 1:18:37

I would have said Marlowe. Okay. Christopher Marlowe.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:40

Shakespeare is also 1600s.

SPEAKER_14 1:18:43

Yeah, but that's like too obvious, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:18:45

So was White. So true. I'm feeling traumatized for missing the easy answer.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:52

Author or playwright?

SPEAKER_09 1:18:54

He said author poet.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:55

Arthur poet? No, he said Cervantes is the poet. Cervantes is the poet. So English author.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:01

Milton? No, Milton's too late.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:03

Who else was writing in 1600s?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:04

We're gonna start the count at five, four.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:07

Send it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:09

Three.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:09

Um, two. Shakespeare.

unknown 1:19:12

One.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:13

The answer is William Shakespeare.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:17

I'm so sorry I screamed in the like Chloe. Oh my god. Let's fucking go. I'm so relieved.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:24

Infernal Force at the last second gets Shakespeare and fights off the psychic damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:30

He does one of the tree like shakes.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:34

Um, going right around the table over to whisper. In archery, you hear in your head, how many points are rewarded for a bullseye? Five, three, and one. Or thirty. Wow, that is love answers.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:55

I don't know. I've never played archery before.

unknown 1:20:00

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:01

Ever played archery.

SPEAKER_18 1:20:02

30 was crazy. Smoke cocaine.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:09

I think it's either five, it's either five or ten, I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:12

I'm gonna go with five. The answer is ten.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:15

God damn it! Just because I missed all my attacks doesn't mean I don't.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:20

You hear in your head question mark. Incorrect. The answer is ten.

SPEAKER_14 1:20:24

And Lupa goes, I said that!

SPEAKER_00 1:20:27

Take eleven points of damage.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:29

Look, something had to go wrong for me at least once.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:31

Oh, it really went wrong for her. Fuck you, man. Hey, I'm about to take like so much damage if I don't get mine right.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:40

Um which is comes down around to yours. In which decade was Tupperware first introduced to the market? It feels like a 60s thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:50

Or 50s. So probably plastic after the war, right? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:20:55

Tupperware party.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:56

Molded plastic, I think we're talking.

SPEAKER_14 1:20:58

60s? I would have said 60s or 70s.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:01

Earlier.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:01

60s.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:02

Because it's also it's also one of the first um level marketing companies. Yeah, and like one of the one of the first uh companies.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:08

When was Amway founded? Um yeah, I would okay. I'm gonna say the 1960s. Incorrect!

SPEAKER_09 1:21:16

The 1940s.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:17

Oh, some people were fighting, some people were making Tupperware. Moms needed jobs during the war.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:25

No, that is the Tupperware story. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:28

Well, I'm about to take a huge hit from that. Then Lupa Tails.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:39

The question is, can you hit me? The answer is no.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:44

I'm pretty sure I did hit you.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:46

Not you, Tree!

SPEAKER_04 1:21:47

Luca hit me. No, no, Ironwood, not you.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:51

That took me a second.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:52

Yeah, I got there.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:54

Well done.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:55

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:56

Um, and speaking of, uh, it goes back to the top of the order now with Fernal Force.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:01

Uh I say, Mark, my words are better than yours.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:05

No, Mark, my words.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:06

Nope, Mark, my words are better than your words.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:09

No, Mark, my words are better because mine speak the truth, and yours sound weird because you don't really have a mouth.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:17

Hey, question? Mark, do you think that you have better words than I do?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:22

I definitely have one. Make an attack roll.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:26

And then I s slice at him. Cool. I think I this is like the trunk that just goes.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:33

You're just gonna fall on him? Yeah. Squash him.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:36

Yeah, I say, Mark, here's a word. What did you say earlier? Timber? Okay, uh, you said a 15 did not hit, right? Okay, so you miss. Just small versions of his side.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:46

Just fall a little lightly. Just stands aside as you start going.

SPEAKER_18 1:22:51

I missed both times. That was no. You're like, dude, nope, dude, no. Hit him, don't knight him!

SPEAKER_00 1:23:02

Just falls on either side.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:04

No. He stands, he doesn't move. Darn. Got a high arbor class.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:09

He's gonna turn around and go, I am not going to let Cartalini get away. And he's gonna pull out his gun and he's gonna take a shot at uh Cartellini.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:20

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:21

Only another seven damage though. Cartellini is now shot. Oh god. I hate it here. I hate it here so much. This is why I never come to the mall.

SPEAKER_13 1:23:35

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:36

Am I at the mall? I feel like I'm at the mall. I've been smelling I've been smelling cinnamon bun all day. It's unmistakable.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:46

Mall's a hot topic.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:47

He is bleeding. Hey? Hey. Um, next is Lupa.

SPEAKER_14 1:23:52

Charm just is, right? I can't like shake it off.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:55

Actually, until the end of the performer's turn is when it goes away. So it's technically gone already.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:02

Fine. And I'm mad.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:04

That's what I get for making this a legendary action instead of doing it on his turn.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:07

Well, Lupa's mad. Her head hurts. Whisper just shamed her for 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:15

Three seconds.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:16

Well, it felt like hours. She's 20 years old. And she's gonna stand up and take um a longbow shot at him at question mark. 24.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:29

He's gonna hit.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:30

So I did five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Damage. And I um, because I have longbow mastery, I would like to cast I can um the property of the long mastery property of the longbow is slow, so I've reduced his speed by 10 feet.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:46

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:48

Um until the start of my next turn.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:51

Great.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:52

Um, I am gonna roll my second attack.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:57

A natural 20! Yippee!

SPEAKER_14 1:25:01

Yippee!

SPEAKER_00 1:25:02

Whoa. I'm glad I didn't ask you the question about archery.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:06

Because you seem to be pretty good at it. I knew the answer. 21.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:11

21 damage?

SPEAKER_14 1:25:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:12

In one arrow?

SPEAKER_14 1:25:13

Yes. I'm very upset.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:16

Logis.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:17

She pulls it back like farther than she's ever pulled. She draws the bow like farther than it's ever drawn.

SPEAKER_17 1:25:22

The duct tape daggers also fly back the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:28

Takes additional dagger damage to the strays. Oh god. Uh huh. I haven't been hit in the chest that hard since I was shot in the chest. With a gun.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:39

That's a compliment. What can I say?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:43

Next up is Whisper.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:44

Okay, Whisper is going to grab the giraffe. Uh-huh. And drag them into the back uh corridor. Run into uh the stall over here with the mime. Uh-huh. Drag the mime into the back corridor.

SPEAKER_14 1:26:03

I forgot about the thing with the mime.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:07

Is the mime still hanging? Did you know?

SPEAKER_14 1:26:09

No, no, I chucked it. Chucking Whispered and all the work.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:14

And once they're both back in there, are the mascot heads uh just helmets? Yeah, you can you could take them off if you wanted to. Rip those things off of us.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:22

Nice. Um you see Mareomare and Scarlet Cantanta uh sitting there. Right. Can you get can you get to safety on your own? Uh yeah, yeah, I I think so. Uh thank you. Thank you. Um we will give you a key to the city. Um uh man, this is so embarrassing. I almost died at the opera like a week ago. People are gonna give me such a hard time.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:45

Great, fine! Whisper runs over towards the back room in uh towards where Carleen was trying to run away.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:52

Um and you see you see a man in a hot dog costume um bleeding badly. That wasn't me. I don't do bleeding. Oh, you've still you've still I've been, I will say that dragging those people is an object interaction, maybe.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:10

Um and you've used your movement, and that's Whisper's gonna run over, grab Carnalini by the collar, get right up, nose to nose, and uh in a low voice say, I suggest you sit here until I come back for you.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:27

Give me an intimidation check unless you're using ability. I I'm casting suggestion. Oh, declare it's not one.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:36

It's not a suggestion.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:38

Does he do a safer suggestion? Uh Wisdom DC 16. He got a 12 if he fails.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:44

Yay!

SPEAKER_00 1:27:45

Nice. Uh that sounds uh that sounds like a great idea, actually. Yeah, I'm just gonna I'm gonna sit here um until you tell me to stop sitting here. And and you see the little hot dog just like the legs are very short because the body goes down so far, so it like tries to sit like cross the Legged and just kind of like falls over and it bleeds a little bit on the floor.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:06

With uh last bit, Whisper uh takes cover behind the counter.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:09

And then is going to take cover behind the counter. Excellent. Uh next is these swarms of Q's nays. Oh. Uh boss, what do you want us to do? Cut the tr cut the tr Cut the tree down. Um so the these guys are gonna make their four attacks. Uh and it's gonna be a 19, a 20, 1, a 20. This is crazy. And a 10.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:33

They hit except for the 10.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:35

Except for the 10. Okay. So they're gonna do 7, 4, and 5.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:40

Uh I think I stopped being a tree.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:43

You un you untree. Now you're just infernal force.

SPEAKER_14 1:28:48

Yeah. Okay. She's just a girl.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:50

Now she's just a girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:52

Looking at question mark.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:56

My life is a nightmare.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:03

Is that your motivation for being a tree?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:06

What no. I don't do you need motivation to be a tree?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:09

I don't know. It just seems like is this an escapism thing?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:12

Oh. Hey, question mark. Question for you. In what year did I get my braces off?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:21

Uh th four years ago?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:24

Wrong! It was last year. Bummer. Can I still attack him even though I or no, it's not my turn.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:35

Not yet, because it's not your turn. Um but it but it will be your turn after Shank's turn.

SPEAKER_13 1:29:40

You started doing quips.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:42

And Shank is up.

SPEAKER_13 1:29:43

I forgot.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:45

Oh man, and I see your so I see my sister turn back into a human. How close is she to everybody?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:53

Very she's she's in the middle of all three enemies. Like there's a circle around her. They've all been they've all been punching her and stabbing her with a with an exclamation point sort. Great.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:03

Then I'm gonna sneak attack uh our quiz our our trivia master again. Because he's within five feet.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I see you. Okay. Nice job, sis.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:14

Just just keep right next to the murderer.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:19

If you could do one more of those those trees, that'd be that'd be really great.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:23

That iconic QLJ. That's signature QL.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:27

That's signature teamwork. It's the sandwich. Where the sister the sister is getting beaten to death and bloody. Just just hang out there. I'm gonna throw another knife.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:38

This is like when we were in the backyard and you're like, here, stay on here with this and I'll throw knives at you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:44

24 to hit. It's gonna hit. Yeah. There's 14. 14 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:50

Hey Fern, stay there. Just stay, just just keep in between us and uh, you know, you got this.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:58

Question mark is looking bad.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:00

Um, and then oh right, and oh, I've got I still have a uh bonus psychic dagger. I can throw two, right? You can throw two daggers. Okay. Sixteen misses.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:14

But I didn't hit you, Fern, so like Oh uh, we are back up to Fernal Force, Nay, quick little justice.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:21

Okay. Uh Nay. Quick little justice. Fern looks at her brother and goes, Oh, nice! And then goes, hey, hey, uh, hey, question mark. What? Suddenly see more of me, and then turns into a giant Venus flytrap. Uh Audrey 2. In the middle of the food court. Um oh, and that's a bonus action, so I can attack now. Excellent. Oh, sugar. That's uh that's a 12, I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:59

12 is gonna miss.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:00

Oh, darn it.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:01

A shame. Um, and it's back up to uh question mark. Uh so he can't see Cartalini, he can't see Whisper either, um, because they're both hiding under the counter um and they have given themselves cover. Um so he's gonna turn back to this uh plant. I guess you're the only one around, Missy. Um he's gonna make his three Arapia attacks. Um he got a 10, a 16, and an uh 17.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:29

Uh two of those will hit.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:31

So he's gonna do 14 piercing damage, and then four, and he will activate his quiz. More quizzes. What are AC Milan, Ajax, and Real Madrid? Soccer teams.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:46

Well, I have to say they are football teams, but I don't know if you use soccer terms or if you use football terms.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:51

That's correct. In Newton's second law of motion, force is equal to mass times what? Acceleration. Acceleration.

SPEAKER_16 1:33:01

Well, I have to say that's what I get in the car and I go vroom vroom, probably call acceleration.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:08

Acceleration is correct.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:10

She shakes her little hips.

SPEAKER_13 1:33:16

This plant is just credit garbage.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:19

So she dodges the psychic damage and just like And that is that is question mark's turn. We're over to Lupa. I'm not gonna let you guys get in the way of me bringing truth to the world.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:33

What this is such an odd hill to die on, trivia. Question marking.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:39

Um trivia is what I am. I am question mark.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:45

I'm shooting in the face Lupa Strange is like frothing at the mouth.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:55

Take a shot.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:56

Shoot him in the face. A dirty 20 will hit him.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:00

A dirty 20 will hit him. Very good.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:02

Nice. Twelve.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:04

Twelve. He had 10.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:10

Oh, hell shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:14

What do you think?

SPEAKER_14 1:34:15

As he opens his mouth, I am questioned mu right in the back of his throat.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:23

I am questioned mu an arrow shoots him right through the throat, through the back of the head. Um sorry, are you doing lethal or not?

SPEAKER_14 1:34:35

I not letally shoot him in the back of the throat.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:38

Through the brainstem.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:43

No, no, no. I'm going to kill him. I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:46

The arrow pierces through question mark, and he falls to the ground dead. Uh, and the QA's are like, whoa, hey.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:56

They're all transelect.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:59

We're not looking for any trouble here. We're just uh we're just passing through.

SPEAKER_17 1:35:03

Hey, with me.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:05

We're with her. Early when she was like, hey, with me, we're with her. If that means we can walk out of here without an arrow in the back of our head, yeah, we're good.

SPEAKER_14 1:35:17

But Lupa has another attack on her turn, and she's like all like blind with rage and her head hurts so bad.

SPEAKER_17 1:35:22

So I think she's like starting to like is like not up anymore. Hey, ho, whoa.

unknown 1:35:31

What?

SPEAKER_14 1:35:32

What loop that's not what your voice sounded like a minute ago.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:37

Sorry! Take off my uh Venus Fly trap head. I'm sorry, that's a It was an animatronic the whole time.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:46

Mascots all the way down. They reveal that that uh quick little justice, infernal force, is actually just putting on plant costumes. These are puppets.

SPEAKER_17 1:36:01

That about me in these costumes.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:03

See Shank is violently throwing up in the corner because we've never killed anyone of teenage superheroes, is witnessing his first murder.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:13

That's crazy because you were trying to murder him! Psychically.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:18

It's not murder if you kill him with a psychic dagger.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:20

Oh god, there's so much blood. I didn't think there'd be so much blood.

SPEAKER_17 1:36:26

Okay. Oh, oh, all right, all right. Okay. Uh my head hurts so bad. What do we do?

SPEAKER_00 1:36:38

I'm bleeding. I'm bleeding over here. Uh someone get this hot dog head off of me.

SPEAKER_14 1:36:44

You better give me a good payout for this, I swear.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:48

Oh, is that Lupa? Hey, I've been meaning to, I've been meaning your paycheck kept getting lost in the mail. I've been meaning to send that to you.

SPEAKER_14 1:36:55

She still has the bone.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:58

Yeah, my people will call your people. We'll uh we'll get this straightened out for sure.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:02

It will be in my hand before we leave this mall. Do you understand me? Oh, I'm writing it right now.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:07

As soon as it's like, Whisper grabs him by the collar and goes, shut up. Yes. Which is healing word.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:18

Most famous of healing words. Shut up. He gets a little health back. He's feeling better. Uh, thanks. Uh, that's good advice. I'm gonna I'm gonna shut up now. Um, and we're officially out of initiative. Anything else you want to do in this mall?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:34

Yeah, I was gonna say that uh as Fernal is coming out of her shape because it actually is not just on top.

SPEAKER_13 1:37:39

Yeah. Let's read, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:42

Um she's like, alright, that was really great. No, okay. Whew, let's go. Um okay, as I go back with everybody else. Oh, and I say, uh, uh, see yourselves out. Uh don't waste it now.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:55

That's right. We're with her. You see them all run out the front door and are all immediately tackled by cops.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:02

We didn't we we didn't need anything, we didn't need them for anything, did we?

SPEAKER_09 1:38:06

I mean, the Q's might have fit like the QLJ.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:09

Oh, well, we could probably get the costumes. No, it's okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:11

We're past QLJ.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:15

Oh no, how are people gonna know that I was awesome?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:20

Serious camera explodes. No! CPR! I think at the very least, uh, I think everyone saw Lupa whiff it on camera because they were kind of pointed back there.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:33

No, no one.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:34

But uh Whisper, I think, uh deftly avoided all cameras, and no one there will be no evidence of Whisper being at the scene at all.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:42

That's crazy that everyone saw me whiff it twice. That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:45

They also saw you kill a baby. You've got a crime boss who's gonna help fund your legal defense.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:50

That's literally fine. I stand by it.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:52

That was on tape.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:53

That's I stand by it.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:55

He had a gun. Yeah, so are we letting this crime boss like off the hook?

SPEAKER_09 1:38:59

I mean, our good friends, the police, might know what to do. Well, I we gotta take justice into our hands. We're vigilantes now, sis.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:06

I know, that's what I'm saying. I I I don't think that our path lies with the system.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:13

You're right. Let's kill him.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:18

Different systems.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:20

Hold it, hovering the knife.

SPEAKER_18 1:39:22

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:23

Hold on. This guy just healed me. Uh, you know, we're getting mixed messages down here.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:28

What was going on with the question mark? Why was he coming after you?

SPEAKER_00 1:39:31

Uh, no one can say.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:32

That guy's crazy. Did you miss the part where he said he got shot in the chest?

SPEAKER_00 1:39:36

Oh, from him. One would presume. That could have been anyone. This is a dangerous city. People get shot. People shoot people.

SPEAKER_16 1:39:44

Let me roll check if you're not.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:46

People also get stabbed. Why why is the quick kid so scary all of a sudden?

SPEAKER_14 1:39:53

Because he witnessed a murder.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:57

Um I think the police start filing it at this point. We'll take it from here. Yeah, we got this guy. We got Mr. Cartellini. Thank you for saving an upstanding citizen.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:06

Those are your besties, aren't they? Are we happy with our choices? I don't either. He deserves justice.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:14

Real justice.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:15

The question is, if we pull on this thread, will the whole thing come down? Probably. Pull the whole thing down? I need his money. Alright, well. You want to keep him in his seat?

SPEAKER_09 1:40:26

Or we could try to steal him away and we could, I don't know, maybe question him? Try to be out.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:33

Listen. He's in with the cops. He'll be out and back. He'll be back at the Italian man-owned cantina before nightfall. We'll have plenty of time. In a good way? I'm saying we have time to decide.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:45

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:46

I'm saying let the cops take him. Kick of the can. He'll be out in a matter of hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:51

Give me um an investigation check. 23.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:56

Classic Whisper. Mm-hmm. 16. 13.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:00

I'll say with a 23, um Whisper heads over to the camera that he just blasted, and he sees in question marks a jacket, not only his now broken pocket watch, but a second videotape. One of those little ones, you know, that you need like the adapter for.

SPEAKER_14 1:41:21

Micro tape.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:22

One of those little micro tapes that says bar footage.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:27

Whisper pockets it. Did we see it? Did we did we see him pocket it? Um, do you want to hide it from them? Uh yes. I would like this. Then we'll do we'll do sleight of hand versus perception then. That's reasonable. 21.

SPEAKER_14 1:41:42

Uh 18. Six.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:45

Listening to your moral conundrums, Whisper does not trust the three of you to come to a correct or unified decision in the near future.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:56

Shex just got a purple dagger up to his throat.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:00

Sperr. You learn if I hear anything else, I'm just gonna show up and I'm gonna shank you in the middle of the night.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:06

I'm gonna get my justice later if I can't get it now. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:09

I'm gonna get it later!

SPEAKER_07 1:42:10

I haven't even done anything to you.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:14

I don't trust anyone.

SPEAKER_17 1:42:16

Shex having an identity crisis. A crisis of faith. Hey Philip, it's gonna be okay.

unknown 1:42:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:24

That was a lot.

SPEAKER_14 1:42:25

I need to get a meatball sub.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:27

Yeah, let's get some meatball subs.

unknown 1:42:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:30

To bring one home for Darius.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:31

For Darius. You uh the the one police officer walks up to you. Alright, so the mayor says since it did a masolid, that I'm supposed to look the other way this time. But I don't like you vigilantes getting all up in police business. Oh you should leave the real police work to the police. We were gonna show up. We were gonna we were gonna get in here. Mm-hmm. We were gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:55

Yeah, okay, like while you were sitting outside.

SPEAKER_14 1:42:58

That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:58

No, we were gonna come in.

SPEAKER_14 1:43:00

Were you gonna come in before or after he shot that loaded six shooter?

SPEAKER_00 1:43:04

We had pl we had so much time.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:06

You had exactly three minutes from when you said three minutes, and you did not.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:10

Yeah, no, we were gonna we were gonna um bravely brave that. Um look, I'm letting you go. I'm letting you off the hook, alright?

SPEAKER_04 1:43:18

Okay. Fine, buy me.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:21

Great. And we'll um uh I just wonder would you wanna give us like a little credit?

SPEAKER_14 1:43:26

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:27

Like, do you wanna like split the credit?

SPEAKER_14 1:43:28

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:30

Like we saw a lot of it on on tape, it was broadcast, but like maybe give the police a little credit and be like, oh yeah. Like if you do a little press conference, it'd be like the police were so supportive of us in our in our efforts. We're having a little bit of a PR problem right now.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:44

Rick, we used to be tight, and we're done. We're gonna deal out our own justice, right, sis?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:49

Right.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:51

Sick of the way that you're handling the city. We've got new friends and allies, we're a new squad, and we're not on your team anymore.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:00

And when you need us, don't ask. Because we won't come when few call. We'll come when we need to. I almost got through it all.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:10

Uh you got a little a little new team here, huh? What are you calling yourselves now?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:17

You know what? Probably slow pig street justice.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:28

SBS J.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:29

SBSJ, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:34

And so SBSJ walks to the back of the mall.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:38

Stops to get subs.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:39

Stops to get subs.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:42

They make the like opera singer make the subs. We're like, you're wearing the costume. Okay, you just real quick.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:50

Like uh, okay, Scarlett Cantante makes the makes some subs for you.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:54

She used to work there before she entered me, probably. It's her survival job. She actually still works there.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:01

I was here like six. I only I only made it bigger a little bit ago, so you know I I know. Still picking up shifts, yeah. Yeah, I still have to, well, yeah, I still pick up shifts every night once in a while. I I the offer happens at night, so I work here in them. Anywho, here's your subs.

SPEAKER_14 1:45:12

Thanks, Scarlett.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:14

Um, and you head to the back and I guess get into the limo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:45:18

Yeah. You guys gotta wanna come in? Well, I have I have my bike, so I kinda I can't leave my bike.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:24

Whisper, do you wanna come in? You guys wanna come over?

SPEAKER_06 1:45:27

Okay, I can I could use a ride.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:29

Yeah. We can drop you off wherever you want to go, or you can convert back to our house. Do you think do you guys have any like do you have any like merch?

SPEAKER_14 1:45:37

Because my little brother's like a big fan.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:40

Oh, if you merch.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:43

I mean, uh our old merch. We should get new merch. He can have as much of the old merch as he wants because we're not that anymore. We can give him all the limited edition stuff. Yeah, now it's time to come over.

SPEAKER_14 1:45:55

Yeah, absolutely. I would love that. He's the president of the QLJ fan club.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:59

Wait, of the local chapter? Yeah. They are so active. They do like charity events every week.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:07

What's what's your uh butler or your butler's name again?

SPEAKER_10 1:46:10

Rad. Rad.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:12

Rad.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:13

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:14

Rad Rad pops the trunk and it's just filled with like little plushies that were like their hand, like it's like two plushies and their hands are like sewn together. They're like, like they're holding hands. Oh, that's cute.

SPEAKER_14 1:46:25

Uh one side has trees coming out, the other side has a dagger.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:28

We can get rid of as many of these as you want.

SPEAKER_14 1:46:30

You wanna you wanna take some of these from the trunk? I will take one of everything and put it in like the saddlebags of the motorcycle and the meatball.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:38

No, you have to come hang out if you want the plushies. Hang. Hang.

SPEAKER_14 1:46:42

Hang, hang.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:43

Haven't we had enough hanging today? Oh.

SPEAKER_14 1:46:49

Dark.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:51

You're um, well.

SPEAKER_14 1:46:52

Okay. Well, my my shift at the prison isn't supposed to be over for another couple hours, so I guess I could come hang.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:58

Yeah, we can like watch a movie or something.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:59

We just got a new VCR. Whoa. Yeah. You guys have one of those?

SPEAKER_14 1:47:02

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I'm gonna come over.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:06

And a rewinder.

SPEAKER_18 1:47:08

Oh you have to wait. What?

SPEAKER_00 1:47:11

It's shaped like a sports car. So you all get into the limo or your motorcycle or your motorcycle. I'll just I'll just tie it onto the roof. Rad just picks up the motorcycle, puts it on the roof, bungee cords it. You're good.

SPEAKER_13 1:47:26

That's nice. Get on in there. Get in there.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:29

Um, and you drive back to do you guys have a last name?

SPEAKER_13 1:47:34

Last one.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:35

Another Kelsey clap em clap 'em. Clap 'em.

SPEAKER_14 1:47:49

Clap em manor, that's not nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:51

Clap 'em. Philip Philip Clap em and Kelsey clap em, right?

SPEAKER_18 1:47:59

And oh my god. They invented the light.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:03

That's how the family made their fortune. Clap on the light.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:07

Yeah. The clap on clap on the cloud.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:09

And also those the one plastic things that go like this, and they have the two hands on it that clap back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:14

Yeah. Wild. Um, so you head back to Clapham Manor. Uh, Rad throws the bike on the top, bungee cords it, and you head off together um into the sunset. Rad turns up the music in the back, and you all party your way into the sunset, the vigilantes of Grimsburg. And that's, I think, where we'll end our session. Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:43

Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:44

And thank you to our stunt cast.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:47

Woo!

SPEAKER_17 1:48:49

Oh my god, that's us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:51

That's all of you.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:52

Thanks so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:53

Thank you so much. Sarah and I, for Scattergood, um, if you're listening to this, it should be the end of July right now. Yeah. Um, we have a show on August 2nd at UCB, if you're in New York City. Um, the Sketch Cage match. That's Sunday, August 2nd at 7 p.m.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:11

I think so.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:11

Around there. Google it.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:13

Um, I'll plug the SummerSling Stage Combat Instant Workshop, which is open to anybody. You don't have to have any experience if you just play DD and you've always wanted to know what it'd be like to swing a real steel sword at your friend. You and your friend should come down to Brooklyn College August 22nd to 24th. The three of us will be there. And um, whether you're picking up a sword for the first time or for an up time, you're an actor, you're just interested in swinging a sword because it sounds fun. It is fun. It is fun. It is fun. Uh, spoiler alert. Yeah, come on down, check us out at Summersling.com.

SPEAKER_14 1:49:51

If you are in the DMB, the Virginia, Maryland area, you can come check out the Vixen's on guard. We will be performing at the 50th anniversary of the Maryland Renaissance Fair. I'll be there the first two weekends in my um Girl Drag Alter Ego as Andromeda. And um it's fun. We're an all-female Shakespeare and sword fighting company that do like 25 minute versions of Shakespeare shows and fight each other. Great time.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:18

It is a great time.

SPEAKER_14 1:50:19

I love that.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:20

On a completely separate kind, uh, I have a plug for an audio drama for people who are thinking for more things to listen to. The Disappearance of Lydia Fontaine is a uh, I believe 10-part audio drama being produced by uh Foxbot Media Companies. You can find it wherever you get podcasts or lydia disappears.com.

SPEAKER_14 1:50:39

Oh, that's cool. Literally Googling that right now. That's that sounds great.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:44

All right, and I think with that, well, thank you, the listeners, yeah. Uh, for listening to our fun little one-shot show. We will be back with another brand new cast, brand new concept uh for Earth 2K um next month. But for now, thank you all. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_19 1:51:01

Goodbye.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:02

Bye.

SPEAKER_19 1:51:07

This was a lot.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:09

Dang.

SPEAKER_19 1:51:12

Um, it looks like the end of a movie.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:14

I haven't seen this much blood since your period. Oh say anything else.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:21

I heard you. I saw you.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:25

Like, how close were they?

SPEAKER_00 1:51:27

Um uh please, not that close. Take two, take two, take two. Let's let's hear let's hear Mike's second thought.