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so much. While his origin had pushed Jai into
the spotlight as a luminary, his reputation swiftly
and completely changed. Seemingly overnight,
the noble baron of the war hero was replaced
by the persona of a showy, shallow playboy, more
interested in fun and flirtations than in continued
heroics. Not that Jai and his crew haven't saved
that fish here of lives following the Civil War.
They have. Heads of Jai's efforts have placed
him as number six in the ranks of luminaries.
One of the big hitters, as they say. Actually,
number five now. Actually, with the big man's
removal. Jai and his sidekicks are still some
of the greatest heroes we've known, but they
just carry themselves in a very different way.
Jai has become known for his impressive consumption
of alcohol and alchemical substances, and constant
whirlwind romances that end as fast as they begin.
Jai is also taken to incredibly long, elaborate,
expensive parties at Handsome House, the name
given to his penthouse in Aurora Town. In this
scene, Jai and his slackers take on the moniker
of party lords, each overseeing one crucial element
of their celebrations, dance, stupor, games,
and love. The story of handsome Jai is certainly
one of twists, and there are many that absolutely
adore the half -elf because of his newfound manner.
But I think the question remains, what persona
lies buried at the heart of this fanciful, fun
-loving figure? One button to either of you.
that can name four of the now top five luminary.
Dude, you know what's so weird? I was going to
ask you. I was going to be like, who are the
top five luminaries? Can you guess? One button,
you can name the top four of the top five. Two
buttons, anyone can name all five because one
of them has barely been mentioned in the show.
Hold on. We're at our max three buttons apiece.
You are? Yeah. You know what? I'll save these
buttons. I'll give them to you when you hit your
mouse. I'll let you have it. I'll let you have
it. Okay. Because I don't think you can do it.
I can't do it. All right. We know two of them.
Atash is number one. Yeah, I want their placement.
Oh, God. I want their placement, too. Oh, well,
then that's pretty much impossible. Atash is
number one. Handsome Jai is number five. Fuling...
Is it Fuling Mei? She's got to be in there somewhere.
It's close. It's close enough. Fuliling. Fuliling.
Close enough. She's got to be in there somewhere.
Hmm. I mean, no more Pigman. No more Ozen. What's
his name? Mosquito Boy. Is he in there? Mosquito
Boy's in there. You have four names now, right?
Yep, I've got four names. Give me numbers. Number
one is Atash. Number five is Jai. I'm going to
say number four is Sturgeman. I'm going to say...
So... Fuliling. Whatever has to be number three.
Who's number two? Oh, God. I don't know. You're
incorrect, Jeremy. Can you pick up where you
left off and fix this? No. All right, then. No
buttons. I'll tell you. I'm going to feel so
stupid when he says who it is. Number one, Atash,
Hand of the Sunweaver. Number two is actually
Foo Lilling the Teapot. Previously, number three
was the Mighty Pigman. No longer the case. Number
three actually now is Sturgeman. He was number
four. He's bumped up. Number five, and this is
the tricky one, actually, no, number four, sorry,
was five. This is the tricky one, only mentioned
once, is the Wildfire Druid, Zopa Reborn. Oh,
yeah. I don't feel stupid. Episode four mentioned,
honestly, really cool character I'm super excited
about, but not in the show yet. And then, of
course, number five, was six, is Handsome Jai,
who is a character I never really expected to
get into, and then Steven bullied me. Stephen
was like, Stephen was like, oh, Sturgeman, you
must know other people, surely, that know Rune.
Surely, as the world's greatest detective, you
must know. And now, here we are. Yeah, fuck me
for, like, playing the game and trying to gather
information. Now you're doing a dance -off, that
information. Prepare to dance! Because we went
off on a tangent here, but honestly, this is
great. It's fun to have fun. Things have been
really bleak and dark and kind of grim. And I'll
tell you right now, the next arc we're going
to get into is some real bleak, supernatural,
horror, mystery shit that I'm really excited
about. But I think some levity is in order before
we get into that because you guys are going to
feel very scared and sad a lot when we hit that
point. So let's have fun. You guys want to have
fun? Yeah. How about here's one more time for
fun. One more time for fun. Let's have fun one
last time here at Fantasy Pants. On the note
of Handsome Jai, this ridiculous character, I
want to speak of another ridiculous character.
It's basically Valentine's Day as we're recording
here. So I want to tell a quick tale about my
darling wife. Okay. All right. Steven, you already
know this. I went to this deal the other day.
Jeremy, this is fresh for you. It's good. I want
one fresh reaction here because this is so ridiculous.
Went to Burger King recently. We each got. That's
ridiculous. Hang on. It gets worse. It gets worse.
You know, we have to drive through. We ordered
a bunch of crap. I got a big fish sandwich. She
got an impossible burger. She's vegetarian. They
asked afterwards, like, hey, you know, do you
want a cookie for two cookies for a dollar? It's
like, yeah, of course we want two keys for a
dollar. We're not we're not idiots who wouldn't
say no to that. Nobody has ever said no to that.
So we get the cookies. We go driving. I eat my
sandwich. I eat it in two seconds flat because
that's how I eat. And she hands me the bag with
a cookie and I reach in. I'm like, oh, no, darling,
there's only one cookie. And she said, oh, don't
worry about it. I looked at her with a, you know,
don't worry about it. And she looks at me kind
of awkwardly, looks at her. burger in her hand
oh my god and says don't worry about it oh my
god reveals that the cookie is on her impossible
burger with ketchup and mustard and who knows
what else with pickles a chocolate chip cookie
and she was like oh yeah it's such a delicious
i discovered it once it's so delicious what is
that i discovered it once i wonder what happened
about um 45 minutes before she discovered it
once I didn't remember that part of the story.
Oh, yeah, I discovered this once. Like, what
are you doing? So, I don't know. That blew me
away. That is my wife. She is the most ridiculous
human I know. Jeremy, is that ridiculous? I'd
try a bite. I'm going to guess. It sounds gross,
but... Yeah, it sounds terribly gross. I'd try
a bite. I'm going to guess that there's a huge
subculture, or at least an existing subculture,
of that sort of, like... menu hacking at fast
food. Like, Oh, if you take the, yeah, this thing
at Wendy's and you mix it with the, that, and
you put the fries in this, there's probably like
a whole, I bet. Yeah. A whole culture like that.
Well, let them know, put a cookie on a impossible
burger at Burger King and you're good. You're
golden. Are secret menus still a thing? Can you
go into the rest, into a restaurant and be like,
Hey, give me the cookie burger. Give me the cookie
burger. Exactly. Craving that cookie burger.
Have you guys got any ridiculous, you know, cute
couple moments? Hold on. No, not really. But
that would be a fantastic, like, pet name. Cookie
Burger. Cookie Burger. Oh, my gosh. Oh, we're
going for it. Dude. Nice. I'm going to change
her name in the Discord to Cookie Burger. We're
going to do it tonight. Amazing. Amazing. No
follow -up stories? Any crazy food takes? You
want to just get into the shit? Oh, man. Yeah.
No, I can't. I mean, you know. Don't want to
get in trouble? I'll share this. You don't want
to get in trouble? I'll share this. All right.
It's incredibly weird. My least, probably my
least favorite thing about my wife. She doesn't
like maple syrup. Huh. Doesn't like maple syrup.
That is weird. Could you imagine? That is strange.
I think that's weirder than not liking chocolate.
She also loves pickles. Enough to go to a pickle
festival every year. And you hate pickles. You
despise them. She didn't go to the pickle festival
last year. We're winding down with the pickles.
There was a point in time where I had probably
four or five jars of different pickles in the
refrigerator. And then it got to the point where
I was like, that pickle jar has been in there
for a really long time. So I think she wore herself
out with pickles. Gotcha. But yeah, not liking
maple syrup to me is like, It's almost like saying
I don't like sweet things. It's pretty wild.
Because it's like sugar, but better. I don't
know. I don't get it. Dip pickles in maple syrup.
Stop. Get out. I know it's your apartment, but
get the fuck out. I have never done that. I'm
just continuing the cookie burger craziness.
It's got to be on a super menu somewhere. Yeah,
of course. Somewhere you go into a fast food
joint. You're like, oh, yeah. Dip my pickles
in maple syrup. Gabby has tried it, I'm sure.
I'm sure. But yeah. Happy almost Valentine's
Day. It'll be like a week after at this point.
Like three days after. Oh, this is the 17th one.
Oh, okay. Hi, happy Valentine's Day. See, this
is the day. The day of release. This is the day
you go to the fancy restaurant because it's going
to be empty. Nobody wants to go have a fancy
dinner on Monday. Everyone's going on Friday.
If you're smart, maybe you'll go on Thursday.
A couple people on Saturday. Hey, we're going
on Friday, but we've got reservations. Yeah,
exactly. If you're really smart, you have reservations.
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they're still
going to pack as many tables into there as they
can. True. Wait, where are you going? True. We're
going to the Beale House. Nice. That's great.
Keep it chill. I haven't been to the Beale House
in a long time. Same, same. Non -spawn. Speaking
of smart over here, you've got some nice, new,
sleek nerd glasses going. Thanks. I like those
things. Thanks. Little black frames. What? What
did you say? What? Those black frames. Oh, you
see, I couldn't hear what you said. I gave him
shit because he didn't notice them yesterday,
and then he said he's got a passive perception
of zero. Hey, Jeremy. And a minus in dexterity,
apparently. Hey, Jeremy. Want to be my valentine?
I've spoken for. Damn. Once my cookie burger
is tossed aside. I think it's valentime to get
this party rolling. Ooh, give me that button.
Oh, smooth. That's horrible. Let's get this party
rolling. Let's literally get this party rolling.
Boom, hit that music. Thank you so much, Fancy
Plus. I used it last time, but I love this track.
It's a really cool track. We'll go along with
this track because we're never going to have
an excuse to play this again in our fantasy show.
We barely have an excuse right now, let's be
honest. Where we left off. uh you had just spoken
to sexy avon one of jai's three sidekicks known
as the party lords here uh and he basically implied
hey you want to get into the vip room you want
to see what's going on there where things are
really happening you're gonna need to impress
the three party lords You took that. You went
off to the dance floor. You really started quite
the show. You got Akio hasted. You got some sort
of magical mist going. You got some helping with
Mage Hand, having him spinning around when he
fell. And the people got wowed. You rolled a
couple 20s there with some really good rolls.
You drew the attention of one of the party lords,
Yuan -Ti, Snake Lady, who was up on the stage
really kind of going hard, dancing, sweating.
And yet her groove stopped when she saw that
display. She came sling -thring, slithering,
slinking, slithering. Slinkering. Slinkering
down to meet you and challenged your dog to a
dance -off. That's my dog! So let's pick this
up right there. I'm not going to make a huge
show of this. I'm going to say I had an idea
for this in my mind when you came over here,
right? I wanted to do kind of a two out of three
competition. You're going to choose what you
want to roll, essentially, because you're going
to choose how you're going to beef yourselves
up to make this look good, right? You already
kind of got in the spirit of that. You cast haste.
You did cool things. You rolled really well.
I'm going to go into this two out of three with
you already at one. Whoa -wee, wow. The crowd's
already going. You are hot. And so when they
step up, when she steps up, and her backup names
come with her, you're in a good spot. The crowd's
into you. I think she picks up right here. I
think she kind of just immediately slides back
following those words like, take a load of this.
And she slides right back to her backup dancers.
They pick her up and they just see this whole
beautiful, you know, obviously choreographed.
They probably have a number of these dance kind
of like, you know, hands up. She's slurring between
them, rolling down to the floor. Incredible display.
I think there's some break dancing there too.
Don't get too crazy about it. I'm going to roll
a die and we'll see how that's going to look.
All right. All right. Get that port of pain over
here. We can really hear it. It's a good show.
Crowd is going crazy. Uh, I think he's kind of
ends off with like, like you guys are watching.
We cut to your cameras. You're like all amazing.
And then, uh, we just cut back and she's sliding
across the floor on her, on her, uh, elbow, uh,
and her snake waist just slides up right before
you. Winks. Let's see what you've got. I'm going
to tell you right now, that was a 17 for me.
Wait, actually, I'm sorry. That was advantage
because I have help action for my backup. Still
a 17. Okay. One of them dropped me. That's going
to be tough to beat. It's going to be tough.
Can you come back? So, boom, crowd looks over
at you. Ooh, what's going to happen? Now you
can do this however you want. You can roll a
straight -up performance check. If you want to
just groove, you can start casting spells for
advantage. You can do weird things, and you can
make a different show of it, use different skills.
You sell it to me. This is like Blades in the
Dark right now. You sell me what you want to
do. Okay, and is it just Akio, or is it like...
Yeah, that's what I was going to ask, because
this is right up Jules' alley. I mean, Akio was
the one challenge, but I think it's okay if you
guys step in too. There's a group there, right?
Sure. Make Akio a part of it. That's all I ask.
Yeah, yeah. Get a Kyo involved. Yeah, I just
wasn't sure if people are allowed to cast spells
on a Kyo. She's really good. We're off. We should
give up. Oh, goodness. So here's what I'm thinking.
Okay. I have an idea, and I'm hoping it goes
along with what you're thinking. I love ideas.
Just do your thing first, and I'll fit my ideas
into what you're thinking. Yeah, I'll tell you
what I think Kyo should do. Okay. I like the...
the quick sheath trait that Akio has. And I want
to see if there's maybe like a bottle lying around
or something. I don't know if we're close to
the bar. There's bottles everywhere. Sure, yeah,
yeah. This is a handsome house. A bottle falls
to the second floor right in front of you. Okay,
great. I want to have Akio use his quick sheath
trait to do like... like, fancy bartender juggles
sort of thing. You know what I mean? He's, like,
flipping the bottle around, and it's, like, going
in the air, and he lands it on his nose like
a dog with, like, a treat. You know what I mean?
Ooh, what is this going to roll? Because that's
going to... You're going to need to roll pretty
good to get that exact effect. Yeah, for sure.
Can you do anything to help him? Any way of,
like, enhancing him or, like, backing him up?
Jules can. Jules can. What do you got, Jules?
Jules can. Excellent. This is where I'm fitting
in. So he's already been doing, like, little
lights and stuff from the side from his loot.
But I think what he's going to do is he's going
to use performance of creation to create a disco
ball directly above Akio. It follows him wherever
he moves. And then Jules is then going to actually
use the broom of flying to fly up to the disco
ball and sit on top of it and put his loot to
the side. Oh my god. And light it up blue and
it just shines everywhere down. That's hot. That's
really hot. And he's just going to stay there
for the duration of this. What I want for this
actually, just like last time. Because Akio seems
to be doing pretty damn well. Just like last
time, rather than doing advantage, I want you
to roll something and I want Akio to roll something.
Blanche, do you have anything to do to back Akio
up to give him advantage or help action on this?
Or Jules. She certainly wants to maintain concentration
on haste, right? Does that any help at all? Oh,
right. Yeah, of course. You know what? That fits
really well with what you're doing. Okay, give
me a Kyo. I think for this, you can tell me if
I'm wrong, I think this sounds like Performance
or Sleight of Hand. One's Charisma, one's Dexterity.
You can pick either of those for a Kyo. Yeah,
I like Sleight of Hand. That makes a lot of sense.
Sleight of Mouth. Sleight of Paw. Sleight of
Snoot. Sleight of Snoot. Sleight of Snoot. There
you go. You almost got a button for that one.
Oh, man, give me that button. Okay. I think in
your case, this sounds like performance to me.
Perfect. Hell yeah. That's a 23 for Jules. Holy
shit. Wow. Do I get Sleight of Snoot with advantage
for haste? You do. You're a spell going. I'm
fine with that. I don't think I'm going to need
it. Oh, my gosh. Oh, wait. No, you said 21. Oh.
Oh. First roll was a 17. Second roll is a 19.
Oh, my gosh. 22. I put on a good show, but I
only got a 17 in the end. Oh, why did I think
you had a 21? No, you guys blew me away. Hell
yeah. That was 17 on the die, man. Highly magical.
I mean, she had great moves, but they were traditional.
She had the backup dancer. She didn't bring in
the magic. You guys brought the flair. You brought
the pop. You came in a couple of fucking luminaries
in the crowd. Absolutely. What you said, that
happens. Bottle lands on the top. Akio, when
it lands on the top, he just... Gets really into
it. You see just chucks it up. It turns upside
down. It lands in his mouth, and he glows Party
dog! He spits it out like, I should not have
done that. Jules, you're just up there. The light
show is incredible. People just start raving
hard under that light. Cute Callie just kind
of, I think she's still kind of lying in that
position. Eyebrows raised. She kind of puts her
hands up and essentially surrenders. That's two
out of three. That's two out of three. Hell yeah.
You got me. That was impressive. She's kind of
kicking you in. nodding smiling the backup dancers
are kind of moving away kind of backing up giving
you guys some space and you feel a presence kind
of move up behind you suddenly uh two hands kind
of wrap around your shoulders kind of like in
a friendly arms on the shoulder kind of kind
of you know position and you see sexy av and
the lizard folk just kind of callie these two
are looking to get into the vip room apparently
they're friends with yara in this sort of moment
She kind of nods and smiles and very friendly.
Well, I suppose they have my blessing. I think
they've proved themselves VIP enough. I thought
the same, though. I do have a little game of
my own I'm setting up right now. Only fair I
get to have my shot, too. So, sounds like you
just need to visit Floudfember, partylord of
stupor. He won't ask for much. Then come find
me back in my games corner where we met before.
That sounds reasonable, right? Very well. Let's
go get stupid. I see Akio sort of limping as
he walks. Like, oh, I pulled everything. I think
haste wears off now. He's just like, I'm so tired.
Akia, why don't you go wait under the game table?
I will go. I think we can handle this. Yes. Sort
of limps, stumbles away back towards that corner
of the room, leaving the two of you. You remember
there was a room when you walked in kind of closer
to the entrance where kind of off to the side
where a lot of people were just kind of. vegging
out, we'll say, on a number of couches lying
in the room. It seemed a lot more of a calm,
weirdly calm atmosphere in there. I think it
was like a sparkling haze almost running out
of that room. Some odd smells. I think that's
the direction Avan points, and then kind of nods
to Callie. Then again, something kind of unspoken
between them, and they kind of break off. She
goes back to the stage, and he goes back to his
corner, kind of following the kind of worst -for
-wear Akio. Leaving you to your next task. Follow
your nose? Yeah. You begin to move across the
floor. As you do, you feel another presence kind
of suddenly just appears out of the crowd right
in front of you. Oh, hey. All right. This is
crazy. Oh, man. Nope, nope. I didn't do the thing.
No indulging. We're good. Look me in the eyes.
Hey, eyes look clear. I'm a psychic now. I'm
serious. Can you follow my finger, Chester? Yes.
Hey. Slaps out of his face. Look, I got a...
I've been doing some listening around, right?
So, Handsome Jai, the Saiyan, he went off to
his room, the VIP lounge, right? With someone
known as Heather Skies. I think we know who that
is. Right? Headless Skies? Heather Skies. Oh,
Heather Skies. Heather... No, my accent. Heather.
Heather. Heather Skies. I'm trying to say it
in a way you can understand it. Heather Skies.
I think we know who that is, though, right? Right?
Yes, I, uh... I think we may have tipped our
hand a little on that front. Well, what do you
mean? Whoops. Sexy boy over there knows we're
looking for Yara. Whoops. Let's see. Well, how's
it going? Are we here? We're getting there. All
right, what's next? What do we got to do? Is
it going to be cool? That's how you're dancing?
That's crazy. We've got some sort of party game
to go play in the stupa room. Stupa. He kind
of snaps his fingers. Floud Femba, right? He's
a fairy dragon. They say he's got a... Fairy
dragons normally have this breath. It's like
hallucinatory, right? Makes you see things. Oh,
shit. They say Floud Femba's been real upped
up on some alchemical stuff from Korrigar. So
his is like super, super strong. Like, you don't
take it and walk away strong. Well... Jules,
I think that of the two of us, I might have the
higher constitution score. Yeah, you do. So...
Yeah. If... Whether this goes well or poorly,
I think it should be you who goes on to the game
table. Maybe Chester can back you up. We'll cross
that bridge when we come to it. Very well. Do
your thing. Did you hear anything else about
the Stupa... Master of Stupa's game? No game?
He just, I don't know. He just has really gnarly
breath? Well, it might be worse than that. Hmm.
Very well. This game has one rule, and, uh, you
know, maybe it's better if you just find out
yourself. If it's a game, eh, I wouldn't call
it a game. Okay, wouldn't call it a game. Oh,
my God. Uh, let's see. Give me one second here
to see if there's anything I can really do to
buff myself. Yeah, this is, it sounds like, this
could go pretty bad if you do not. Oh, shit.
What? What? What do you want? I'll fight you
right now in the street. No, no, no, no. Take
off your shirt. Take off your pants. Oh, my God.
I'm so excited. Dude, I think I'm going to cast
Protection from Evil and Good on myself. What?
Whoa. Until the spell ends, one willing creature
is protected against certain types of creatures.
One of those is Fae. Protection grants several
benefits. Creatures of these types have disadvantage
on attack rolls against the target, can't be
charmed, frightened, or possessed by them. Oh,
I thought it said poison. It says possessed.
I don't know if that's going to count as kind
of a charm. I'm going to count it. I'm going
to count it because I think that's a really cool
poll. I like that a lot. Okay, that's great.
I like that a lot. Wow. What I'm looking for
is creative solutions to these silly little problems
I'm throwing at you. Yeah. That's a really cool
one. I was hoping it was going to be a drinking
game, and I was going to ask to use my amulet
of the drunkard to somehow negate some of the
effects. Another question, too, actually. Because
this is going to be a con save. You have a way
of getting advantage on it now with that, right?
Sure. If you cast that, I think that would give
you a plus two advantage on a con save. Or plus
two to your advantage on a con save. Because
I believe you have a feat that automatically
gives you advantage on con saves. Am I wrong?
Checking. I believe you have... Is that what
resilience does? Or am I wrong? Increase the...
Proficiency in constitutional saving throws.
Still, that's pretty great. That's fine. She's
still got a plus five. Whoa, and advantage? Yeah.
If protection from good and evil is going to
grant me advantage, then yeah. Hell yeah. So
I tell you guys, just mosey on over to the...
You mosey at parties, right? That's what you
do? It's more like a swagger. Yeah. You got to
have some attitude with it. All right, all right.
You mosey with attitude. And move into, you know,
out of the sort of main sort of raging party
area. Things seem to get like weirdly quiet,
almost like you hit some kind of barrier that
kind of cuts down some of the noise as you sort
of slide into the next room over and people are
just kind of lying about, again, like a smell.
It sounds like it smells weird, but it doesn't
smell weird the way you're thinking, probably.
It smells like cinnamon. Like this sort of nice,
fluffy, sort of sugary smell as you're going
through this room. It hits you, it's very fey.
uh you kind of push through you see all these
people getting lined up uh just again just kind
of staring out into space smiling and towards
the end of the room on like one sort of very
regal looking couch you see this purple cat -sized
dragon with blue butterfly wings uh just kind
of curled up almost like a cat and as you are
kind of coming the eyes sort of snap open again
just eyes very red and blurred uh very vein filled
and kind of Do I know you? What was his name
again? Floud Fember. Floud. He doesn't get a
cool thing. Yeah, cute, sexy, handsome, and just
Floud Fember. He's Floud. He's Floud. It's all
one word. I assume that you must be Floud, the...
Floud Fember. Something of Stupa? Lord of Stupa.
Lord of Stupa, yes. Show some respect. I apologize.
It's a little loud out there. I couldn't quite
hear. Why is it so quiet in your room here? Because
I like it quiet. Okay, that's a good answer,
I suppose. I meant more how, but I... Anyways,
we're trying to get into the VIP lounge. Kind
of nods and just, like, looks so odd of it. Kind
of, like, little butterfly sort of... sort of
flies up slowly right in front of your face.
You want to get into the VIP round? Yes. Could
you tell me how we could do that? I'll tell you
how. Yeah? I'll tell you how. Uh -huh. And he
flies right in front of your face. And he sort
of turns upside down. There's a little dragon
rumpus right in front of you. He reaches a hand
through his legs towards you. One tiny little
claw outstretched says, pull my finger. What
the fuck? What the fuck? Pull it. Pull my finger.
Blanche is a former dignitary. That's what you
get for doing whatever you did. I don't remember.
Oh my god. Wow. I mean, you can imagine the look
of... unamusement and distaste on Blanche's face.
Chester's trying so hard not to just outright
laugh. He's a little bit buried into you, Jules.
It's like a reflex. It's almost like a gag reflex.
She's trying to turn her head away, but keep
it straight at the same time. She reaches with
two fingers. Do it in real life. Do it to me.
To just grab. The finger. Oh my God. And lightly
pull. You just catch this. Boom. Blast of sugary
pink smoke. Sugary. Cinnamon. Cinnamon. Blast
your nose. You just feel like, like you breathe
it in and like, oh my gosh, your mind goes on
a journey. You feel like you are soaring, soaring.
Everything around you blurs. I need you to roll.
Constitution saving throw. Con save with advantage.
With advantage, yes. Because you are protected
from this thing. So they like this a lot. Dirty,
stinky, 20. Dirty, stinky, 20. Hell yeah. Nice.
Wait a minute. Hang on a second. I think I actually
wrote this down. I did. I wrote DC 20 con save.
Get out of town. DC 20 con save. Holy shit. Wow.
You just, this is, again, potent. This is like,
yeah. For one thing, it's weird. You're seeing
these people, and again, like, they were, you
probably know, no, you rolled really low on your
checks. You wouldn't know much about them, would
you? No, it was all single digits, yeah. Yeah,
so you don't know their past. Yeah. I want to
ask you. When this hallucinatory gas blasts Blanche,
what does she see, and what does she overcome?
Whoa. Wow. What's going on in Blanche's mind?
On the spot. I want to look at Blanche's psyche
right now. You've dealt with so much serious
stuff. Here you are at this party, and I know
it's not fun and games for you, but it is some
kind of levity following, I guess, some of the
most traumatic moments in your entire life, and
you've had a long life. You've seen Ozen's corpse.
You fought with it. You killed it. You were betrayed
by the king you served for years. You left your
pupil, your, in many ways, one might say a surrogate
son behind to journey off on your own. And what,
I mean, what do you see? So there's all these
flashes and the first one she sees is just De
Piero's front and her new sword. Ichigenka just
appears through his belly as if cut from behind
and just pops out of his belly and he looks down
and there's blood everywhere and Blanche can
see her own face over his shoulder just malice.
And then there's a flash of her returning to
Ozen's training grounds and Ozen's alive this
time when she goes back and he rejects her. You
can't hear what's being said, but he turns her
away. He's disappointed. She leaves in shame.
Then there's another flash where she goes back
to Nowari, back to the castle, and something
horrible's happened. And she goes into the room,
the chapel, the throne room, where Jeanne got
married. And everybody's dead and she's frantic.
She's looking for Jean and she can't find him.
And then she realizes it's all, it's all hallucination
and she pushes it away. Can I, can I add one
thing? Air Jack, just to make my sound cool.
In this moment, as you're kind of hitting all
of this, you're surrounded by all of this, it's
facing you as you're starting to realize the
inner voice in your mind begins to realize. And
I think you hear, sah, imagine the waves coming
in. and bring all of it out yeah and she breathes
it out and returns holy shit and you just like
for you guys what you saw was Blanche hits this
and for a moment like teeters backwards eyes
go like my pupils dilate so far they are her
eyes are full black like fucking crazy looking
and then blink and your eyes return to normal
And she opens her eyes slowly and sees this dragon
fairy's butthole on her face. Hey, Steven. Take
a button! You're already maxed. Should have used
one. He does what you see behind that butthole
or beneath that butthole. It's a face that's
actually pretty astonished. Holy shit. Normally
you'd fall over. You're pretty cool. You got
my whatever blessing, whatever they're doing.
And he kind of slides back down. Just tell them,
do what they want. Do what they want. And he's
referring to the other party lords. He just kind
of slides back to sleep. He's sort of doing his
thing. Blanche kind of shakes it off, rubs her
face a little. Well, I somehow think that I maybe
can help in the next game. You need me? Yeah,
you passed. I mean, I was going to do some incredible
bad effect. It was basically going to be like
fully incapacitated sort of thing. Real quick
here. Okay, never mind. I'm going to slide a
hand check for Chester to see if he got that
diamond from you. Because he super wanted to
record that. I rolled a two. Did not work. You
just grab his hand. Come on. Jules didn't even
look down. He sensed it. He sensed it. It's going
to find a face, Jules. Come on. We got to see
it. I got to show it the round stuff. We should
have let you play this game, Chester. Holy shit.
And you walk away. Stumble. Wow. Stupor room.
Yeah, you're like, it's like you're coming to
your senses so fast. Like, that should have knocked
you out. You see a lot of people in this room
that are fully just like catatonic almost, and
you're just walking out just fine. Chester kind
of went beside you. Back out to the main sort
of dance floor. You're looking towards maybe
the northwest side of the room where... There's
some kind of commotion. It seems like a group
of people have formed a circle around the area
where the tables and benches were. Oh, the game
table, really? Wow. Something's been getting
set up over there. Jules, it was a bad trip.
I'm kind of out of it. I'm going to rely pretty
heavily on you, if that's okay. Yeah, take it
easy, okay? Yeah. I need your shot for when you
get in there. I'll take a little time to think
and square myself. Stay close. Blanche is going
to walk behind Jules and push their way through
this party. Okay. She definitely needs a breath
minute for that one. Bracing herself on Jules'
hips. Yeah, definitely. As you do. Blanche and
Jules just grind across the dance floor. Gotta
fit in. Yeah. I cannot. This is... I'm so excited
for this. It's so stupid. I'm so excited. So
as you're moving, you just see the crowd sort
of breaks down a little bit. I think maybe you
see just barely past them as they open up. And
you see... A number of, like, it looks like some
furniture has been arranged in some kind of,
you know, pattern just beyond them. You kind
of look and kind of close right around them,
and you see Sexy Avan steps out from the middle,
comes approaching you guys, hands out, just like,
all right, we're ready. I got that started as
fast as I could. I've been waiting for this.
This is going to be fun. I was going to pull
it out later on, but I think you guys, you, you're
the competitors I want. So, do you want to play
a game? I think he actually stops and looks over.
Wait, you're all here. Flout Femur's losing his
touch. I don't fall down much. Ooh, nice. Nice.
Nods. All right. I'm going to take this seriously.
Again, sorry. Do you want to play a game? That's
what we're here for. What's your game, sexy boy?
As players, hear me out. Hear me out. It's a
little game we like to call Musical Chair. Okay.
Rules are simple. Delightfully simple. Two of
you against me. Music plays, move around the
circle, keeping to this outer line. It kind of
points to where, like, the people are. And it
just, you know, right around them. Kind of like,
there would be, like, they're sort of just inside
of it, looking at something. There is a line
drawn on the floor. Sort of black on the sort
of diamond, vibrant, sort of pink floors. Music
stops. We all move in. First to sit in a chair
wins. Got it? Sure. Sounds easy enough. How long
does the music last? Not long. Can't tell you
exactly because you'll be ready for it. That's
the game. We got it just when it stops. You got
to be ready to move. So who's playing? Two of
you, I said. I think I can help. Just sit in
that chair, Jules. Let's do it. He kind of snaps
his fingers. All right. Move out. And you see
everyone kind of like this whole crowd very excitedly
looks. They begin to step back. And you see there
are 12 chairs arranged in a circle. Oh, no. I
thought it was one chair. Let me bring it to
a map. Oh, no. Let me bring it to the map. I
thought it was one chair. I said first to sit
in a chair wins. No, first to sit in a chair
wins. I don't know what's happening, but I don't
like it. Let me bring you to the map. Rochelle
asked me yesterday. He's like, do you need a
map for the upcoming combat? And I was like,
nah, it's cool. Let me show you. I'm just doing
musical chairs. Oh, my God. Okay. Yeah, that's
12 chairs in a circle. All right. 12 chairs in
a circle. That's it. We don't need... Look at
that. I got the new Chesta token, by the way.
Astropathics Chesta token. Oh, yeah. We don't
need Chesta. Akio is lying in the middle of the
circle. He's not in the game. He's just there.
It's where the bench was. He's fully asleep.
They didn't want to wake him up. They felt bad.
He's too cute. You see you're standing about
the line you move from is about 20 feet out from
the line of chairs. And starting off, Avan also
moves over there. Do you guys, when this music
starts, when this game begins, do you want to
be right next to each other or do you want to
spread out a little bit? Hold on, is that Avan
over there? Yeah, it's just a lizard picture.
But really sexy. Look at that lizard. Zoom up.
It's really sexy looking. Yeah, that's... Great
lizard, I guess. Sexy white lizard. Yeah, Blanche
wants to... We can move wherever we want? I'd
say he looks like he's kind of armed now, too.
He's kind of switched into almost like combat
gear. He's got a... Looks like two... Looks like
Bola's hanging off of his belt in one spot. He's
got like a blade. His sheath. He's kind of looking
at this sort of smile. We can stand anywhere
around the edge of the mount? So basically what
I want to know is whether you're going to be
by each other. Because when we start this thing,
what I'm going to ask you to do is roll a D12,
and that'll be the position you're in when this
opens up. I want to be close to Lizard Boy. Oh,
you want to stay with him. Yeah. So whatever
you do, I'll just be in the same spot. I like
that. Okay. That's interesting. Yeah. Why not?
I don't want to be right. I want to be within
10 feet of him. Within 10 feet. Okay. Yeah. I'll
let you roll the die, and I'll just move to around
where you are. Jules, do you want to be nearby,
or do you want to spread out a little bit? I
think it'd be nearby, but not too close. All
right. Maybe just around the bend a little bit.
A little around the circle, but not opposite.
All right. Let's do one roll then. And we'll
just position off of that one roll. One D12 to
see where you end up in this chair situation.
Six. All right. You move. around the music starts
the story starts off you're all kind of like
moving slowly and it's like you know you see
musical chairs children it's like dancing walking
having fun this is almost like i imagine it's
almost like a hunting sort of skirmish right
like like tigers circling prey you guys are walking
around the chairs he's kind of looking over his
shoulder staying great but you know 10 feet behind
him he's sort of smiling as he's claws pointing
chair chair chair waiting waiting Waiting for
that right moment. And then, the music stops.
Blanche casts Hold Person. Roll for initiative.
I'm going to do initiative roll first, I think.
Okay. But I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
Cracked. Very, very cracked. You know what? You
wouldn't have been ready in action. Oh! Pretty
good? Pretty good? 18, so 22 initiative. Holy
moly. Ooh, that's only a three. Okay. Music stops.
You see Sexy Evan breaks down, almost into this
full, about to leap, like, pounce again, like
a tiger on the hunt. He's about to jump in. But
here are the 21 for his initiative. Oh, shit.
Well, the 22, you're already casting your spell.
Am I rolling a save? Is that your game? You're
rolling a wisdom save. Oh my gosh, that is gnarly.
Nice. Gnarly, okay. Oh, that's a maybe. I might
be all right. Oh, my wisdom's actually pretty
good. Shit. I'm okay. That's a 19. Damn. Damn
it. Still your move, but you go to cast. Your
magic sort of wraps around him, and for a moment,
you see he freezes in his mid sort of thing.
I think that's almost what happens, right? He's
ready to go, but you kind of hold him for a quick
second and are able to start moving before he
can. But you see he snaps his finger. He flexes,
breaks out of it, looks to you. What do you do?
Cast it again. What? You can cast twice? Oh,
right. Same turn. No, I can't. Oh, yeah, I didn't
do ready to action. I figured this makes more
sense. Okay. That would have been a whole can
of worms, because then I should have ready to
action, and Chester should have ready to action.
I don't know. I still have move and bonus action.
All you got to do is sit in a chair, right? I
mean, like, you can just, you can move 20 feet,
right? I'm not an idiot. Oh, wait, let's move
your six spot. You're here. Gosh. Jules, I'm
putting you by the number three chair, kind of
close by, but not super far. Cool. Chester's
in the corner watching. Okay. Bonus action. She
will go into Bladesong. Okay. Nice. Then I'll
use my movement to go and try to sit in a chair,
I guess. Okay. How much do you have? With Bladesong,
that's 40 feet. Okay, yeah. You can reach the
number six chair or you don't drown it. Okay.
I guess I'm going to sit in the number six chair.
Lanch slides up, leaps over the top, lands right
down in this nice little wooden chair. You just
drop right into it. That's the end of your turn?
Yes. And you just kind of hear behind you, oh,
and one more thing I forgot to tell you. So dumb.
There it is. There's only one chair. Oh, okay.
Gotcha. Holy shit. Yeah. And you feel the chair
beneath you begins to stir. Begins to move and
suddenly it begins to unravel the arm bars beside
you. Suddenly slide open. You see rows of teeth
and slathering tongues, purple tongues. It's
a mimic. Oh my God. So stupid. One chair, 11
mimics. Okay. First to sit wins. All right. Let
me switch my token to my, how do I get these
guys? Makes a little more sense now. Now you
see what I'm doing. Yep, now I see what you're
doing. But you've revealed one. Oh, by the way,
I should tell you this. Mimics have a little
trait called adhesive. Stop. Oh, my God. It's
really fun. You're going to love this. The mimic
adheres to anything that touches it. A huge or
smaller creature that adheres to the mimic has
the grappled condition. Escape DC 13. The ability
check is made to escape at disadvantage. You...
suddenly find the chairs very, very sticky, like
suction cups appear kind of covering you almost
like you are glued down. It's getting pretty
hard to another chair because this chair is chosen
to keep you. Oh my God. God damn it. I'm guessing
there's no chance that a mimic is considered
an object, is it? Hang on. No, this is actually
interesting. Hang on. It can. Shapes which resemble
a medium or small object, but is not small. It's
a monstrosity. Okay. It has what's called an
object form. And I was like, wait a minute. I
do love the idea of you being able to like...
Just Ichigenko would have just been able to.
Yeah, it's so cool. But no, unfortunately, I
can't do it. Sorry. But too generous already.
You're stuck to a minute. And that's going to
be SexyAven, who just kind of smiles. Oh, what
should I do to you, Jules? Yeah, we'll do this.
He looks over to you, Jules. Grabs the bola from
his belt. So it's like two. It's like a rope
with two sort of... Like knives at the end? Knives
are like... I think it's almost like stone. Oh,
like spears. Yeah, I heard the right word. He
picks it up and starts slinging it. He's going
to throw it right at your feet. He's going to
try to bola you. Oh, my God. I'm going to roll
my attack. Oh, that might not do it. 12 to hit.
No. That doesn't do it. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Puts
me in an interesting spot. Okay. You dodge that.
He's going to start moving in towards the chairs.
He's going to stand up right behind between 8
and 7, kind of like just down in the southern
part of this, right near where Blanche is stuck,
kind of drawing his blade. But I'm not going
to use my blade yet. Instead, I'm going to...
Yes. No, hold on. Yeah, okay. I'm just going
to attack. I'm going to take one attack with
my weapon. It's going to slice at one of these
chairs. I'm going to roll. Evens eight, odds
seven. Slashes at eight. And eight transforms.
Okay. And so you infer, if you do damage to them,
you can reveal them. It does not immediately
strike at him. Showing its hand. He kind of just...
That's when he stabs it, and you kind of see
the chair just kind of, again, tongue rolls out
from the seat as it kind of opens up and just
kind of... But it doesn't really move. It doesn't
do anything. It seems like they're more just
trying to focus on those that get in on top of
them. And that is going to be his turn. That's
the mimic. Only one of them is really active
right now, and that's going to be the one that's
got you, Blanche. I'm going to bite you with
advantage. Pretty good. That is going to be a...
23 to hit. Huh. Wow. I'm trying to decide if
it's worth casting shield. Screw it. Let's take
the hit and find out. Yeah, it would have been
worth it. 3d8s. 16 points. Holy shit. seven of
which is acid, most of it just piercing. Basically,
as you're kind of there, it kind of folds in
and bites into you, and you just feel teeth ripping
into you. Those teeth that are in the tongue
kind of wraps around your arm, and you begin
to feel it sort of burn. There's an acidy sort
of liquid spit on the tongue. Gross. Acid saliva.
This thing is licking you all over. I'll open
your weird turtle hair. And that is going to
be the only main... Actually... You know, I am
within range of this thing, and it did awaken.
I guess it would only make sense for this one
to attack me, too. Yeah, you know what? I'm going
to attack non -advantage because I'm not stuck
to it. I touched it, and it rolled away. Should
I roll it again? Do whatever you want. Okay.
I was, like, going to grab it to see what it
was, and I, like, actually dropped it, and it
rolled. I was like, crap. I don't really get
it. It does miss. So pseudopod, this thing, like,
a little tentacle sort of limb sort of breaks
off the chair, slides out. It's actually having
it just dives right underneath it, goes wide.
And he is fine. And that's going to be Jules
LaRoche. Jules is in the game now. Blanche had
to get got so you could see what's going on.
If you do damage to them, if you can make them
reveal themselves, that's the puzzle. How do
you find which one's right without getting got
yourself? Right. There are. There's not a whole
lot I can do to get Blanche. Oh, don't worry
about Blanche. Yeah, just find a chair. Jules
is going to cast Spotic Inspiration onto Blanche
as a bonus action. Nice. And he loves to taste
that golden moe. It's like, yummy. And then,
I hate just doing a friggin' melee attack on
him, but I don't want to waste spell slots on
chairs. I mean, I think this is like our sort
of quote -unquote boss battle. True. Maybe. Might
just be. Might just be. I don't know. I'm prepping
for something in the VIP lounge. Well, we gotta
get there first. What he got within range to
a melee attack, this thing was able to attack
him? It was able to attack him. It's range? Okay.
Alright, so. Yeah, fuck it. I can't imagine.
Yeah, I'll just use Tasha City's Laughter on
him. Oh, nice. I'll stay at range. That's pretty
good. Okay. And I'm going to hit number five.
Oh, I thought you were going to hit the guy.
No, that makes sense, too, though. Actually,
hold on. I like both of these. Because I was
thinking about hitting him at first, but I want
to start whittling down chairs. Well, if he can't
find a chair, then... Because how long does Tasha's
last for? until he... It's a wisdom save, and
he's got great wisdom, he said. Oh, he said it
was good anyway. But he gets to save every turn.
It's interesting. Tossers will last every turn,
and if I get attacked, I get to make a roll with
advantage to get out of it, but it makes it so
I'm almost sure to get hit because it gives me
advantage against me while I'm incapacitated,
which means if that happens to me while right
next to a mimic... I might get got before Tasha
wears off. So it's a cool potential strategy,
but also revealing chairs is also a pretty cool
thing to do. That's the puzzle. Now you got a
second guess in it. Because Jules will not, I'm
not going to bring him into range with those
chairs for any melee attack. Yeah, that's fine.
So that's why. But you just made a good point
that that mimic is already out. So if he gets
incapacitated right there. I think both potential
castings are a really cool move. Yeah. I didn't
realize that portion of it. So I think I am going
to go for him across the way. Okay. Okay. It's
a wisdom save. Wisdom save. Now, there's a lot
of buttons out there right now. You want to give
me disadvantage on this? You can each give me
one. Make it less painful for you both. Disadvantage
for potentially one round. What's your save?
15. I say we go for it. With buttons? No, I would
say without buttons. Okay. All right. That's
a fail. No shit. There we go. Now we're talking.
Now we're talking. You see you cast a spell.
He kind of weaves around the chair. He looks
over to you, smiles. Your hand kind of comes
out, maybe a wave of magic. His smile begins
to grow and grow. And I think I told you before,
his smile is huge, way too wide on his face.
And his mouth just cracks open like a maw of
an alligator as he just... laughing maniacally,
drops down, incapacitated. This big purple tongue
of a mimic starts slithering over to his body.
He just can't do it. He's just looking at it
like... Oh, yeah. Important to note, too. His
eyes wide. At the end of its turn, he gets a
save. A save, yeah. But also when he takes damage
as well. Yeah. I remember that because I think
we've forgotten that part in the past. Yes, we
have. We have. During a very crucial boss battle,
actually. Those are the old times. Now we're
perfect. We never make mistakes. Not once. No
edges. Ever. In musical chairs. That's your turn,
Jules? Yeah. Hell yeah. Top of the round, we
have Blanche. Blanche's tongue is all like blah,
blah, blah, blah, all over you. It's gross. It's
awful. Acid. You're getting bit and munched on.
This is probably, you were just over there in
like a nightmare hallucination, and this might
be worse. Right, exactly. Okay, action to break
free, right? Or try to break free? Yes, so in
order to break free from this, it's going to
be to make a, okay, so it's grappled. So acrobats
or athletics, escape DC, I'll tell you right
on the sheet, it's 13. But you have disadvantage
on any checks to escape it. He has Bardic. I've
got Bardic. You have Bardic. But now he knows
what he has to get, so he can't use Bardic. Whoopsies.
You can't use it. You can't? Oh, yeah. It's fine.
Damn. I should have told you. I was like, I'll
just say it. Okay. My bad. So, all right. Acrobatics
check. Plus four on the die. Oh, wait. So, disadvantage.
I'll roll two. Oh, no. The lower is five plus
four. That's nine. That makes it kind of exciting.
I like that we know the roll now. It's exciting
now. Thirteen? I'm going to take the bardic.
Oh, shit. So you need a four? Five or higher.
Four or higher. Oh, four. Yeah. Meets it, beats
it. Meets it, beats it. Four or higher. Oh, my
gosh. That's way cracked. Hold on. I'm rolling
in the... No, I don't want to roll your dice
tower. No, not in yours. Hold on. Pass me the
storm shield. The storm shield is back. Not today,
trooper. Four! Nice! Holy shit! Yeah! Oh, fine.
Yeah, don't high -five me. That's fine. No, sorry.
You don't get a high -five. I'll high -five you,
David. I'm adding more chairs. Oh, goddammit.
Holy shit. Oh, jeez. What does it look like when
you snap out of this thing? She just, like, rolls
over backwards and, like, backflips out of the
chair. Oh, shit! That's so cool. You roll out
of the chair, his shell kind of sliding out,
and the mimic's kind of like lying now kind of
backwards, just sort of still kind of unraveling.
It's sort of weird, purple membrane body kind
of coming apart, meshing with the wood, but like
turning into almost a blovish form. But it's
not moving. It stays put. Gosh, I hate that that
was my action. I really can't do anything now.
I don't really have any other bonus actions.
You can sit in a chair. I'm actually not going
to do that. Just move and sit in a chair. Come
on. Blanche is going to move. Let's see. In the
center of the circle here. Standing next to Akio.
Still just snoring. You slide in. You're just
like, I love this image, too. You just glance
next to Akio, and we just kind of see this camera
slowly circle pans around her. You hear, like,
the background of Avan just laughing. And we
just see, like, chair, chair, chair, chair, chair,
chair, chair, chair. All around, it goes around.
Which one's the real chair? You are surrounded
still by, what's it, like, nine more enemies?
Ten? Chairs? Ten chairs. Nine enemies. One's
a chair. One's a chair. Chair's got no grudge
against you. Okay, that's your turn. That's all
I got. Planning this out. What's your next scheme,
Blanche? How do you control this battlefield?
That's going to be Avan, who doesn't do anything.
No, but you get another check. I do get another
check. And if I don't go for this, I'm going
to get licked on real bad. He just sees, like,
the tongue coming near him, and he can his eyes
go wide just by his laughing. He's like, ha,
ha, ha, ha. He's got terrified eyes. I'm going
to roll this check. I think that's close, but
not quite. Let me see. It's only a 13. Oh, nice.
Wow, that's great. Still laughing. Yeah, super
cool. For a second, his body kind of moves out
of it. I think he closes his mouth and holds
it in laughter. You see it's like his chest quaking,
and he just falls backwards again, bursts out
laughing. Tongue fully comes out of mimic turn.
Only one's in range. Advantage because incapacitated.
Oh, boy. No, no, Avan. Come on, man. You're so
cool. All right, pseudopod. What's it called?
The tongue. The tongue just, like, slaps down
on top of him, and he's, like, yanked upwards
by the tongue and just slapped down right onto
the chair. Chair fully kind of amorphs into a
mouth and begins to munch. He's kind of just,
like, going out. I'm going to roll some damage.
Are these mimics moving when they attack, or
is it staying in that spot? They do not move.
It seems like that's part of the game is they
do not move. So it's more of a puzzle than anything
else. I don't want to get into where it's like,
okay, now fight 11 mimics at the same time. That
would take three episodes. Can you do me a favor
then and move that mimic token back over that
chair? Which one? Yeah, that one. There we go.
Perfect. Oh, it wasn't. That's weird. It was
for me. Avan's now going to be in this chair.
I'm just going to say he gets grabbed and moved
when he's grappled. Just drop down on top of
the chair. He's lying belly down on it and kind
of... I'm kind of having a hard time. But I get
to roll advantage to see if I break the laughter.
And I do. Natural 19 of the die. So he's not
laughing anymore. And that makes a lot of sense.
And that's going to be Jules. Okay. You've got
him dealt with. Now you just got to figure out
which chair is the right one. Yeah, I don't.
How many items can you create with College of
Creation? That's what I was looking for. Hang
on. Okay, here's what you can do. Once you create
an item with this feature, you can't do it until
you finish a long rest unless you expend a spell
slot of second level or higher to use this feature
again. Well, idea. Your mastery over the song
creation allows you to magically bring items
to life. As an action, you can target a large
or small non -magical item, blah, blah, blah.
So you can try... Does that have a number of
times per day that you can do it? It's once.
Okay. You only need to hit it once because these
other things are not items. So you can point
to a chair, try to animate it, and if it animates
it, great. You can make it run to you. If it
doesn't animate it, guess what? That's a mimic.
Yeah, why not? Hang on. Before you do anything.
I want to write down somewhere which chair is
the right chair. Wait, you don't know which chair
is the right chair? I do know. I just want to
write down, so it's not bullshit. Oh, dude, I
was about to, like, quit and walk out of here.
Of course I know which chair is the right chair.
Come on, man. I do a bunch of scribbling, so
you don't know if it's, like, one. So here's
a single line. It's like, gee, what number is
one line only? There's only one of those. And
it's one. Anyway. Okay. So, yeah, let's go. We're
going to go number five. Number five. You point
number five? Yep. Point number five. Try to animate.
What I'm going to say, because it's fun, is as
it touches the chair, it moves for a second,
quivers, and then goes bleh! It unravels the
mimic. It's like the second you touch it with
this and move it, you try to move it, it's like
it somehow broke the illusion. The chair just
blah! Now you have three slavering mimics. We
also got to remember which chairs. Yeah, they've
got the mimic tokens on them now. That's it.
That's it. All right. Top of the round, Blanche.
Okay. Blanche is going to run to chair seven
and slice at it with Ichigenki. Yeah, I guess.
So hear me out. Yeah. If Blanche slices at this
thing and she hits the actual chair, Ichigenki
is supposed to do max damage to it. Can she still
like... Only if it's an object? It wouldn't for...
No, I'm not talking about for a mimic. I'm talking
about what if I hit the real chair? Do I break
the chair and then the game is over? Or can I
sit on the crumbled chair? You can sit on the
crumbled chair. I don't care. You can make that
happen. All right. She's going to slice at number
seven. Okay. Number seven unravels before you.
It might try to get you a little bit. Why is
it... Oh. You can't make it on. I was copying
and trying to move it. I forgot that paste is
a thing that exists. Yeah, paste is a thing that
exists. We got it. Okay. Blanche is going to
run back five feet. Out of my halo ring? Yep.
Bring it on. I'll miss. Okay. Then she's going
to run over to number nine and slash at that
one because she gets two attacks with the attack
action. Nice. Pretty good. And it goes bleh.
Okay. Another one rolls out. Tongue rolls out.
You're with her angel. Do you want to get out
before it's turn? Yeah. She's going to use the
rest of her movement to back over here between
10 and 11. That's a miss. Tongue's gone. Okay,
you slide over there. Oh, boy. Okay. My guy is
free. He's in a chair. I'm not going to try to
break out. I'm not going to waste my action on
that. Instead, oh, man, this sucks. I have multi
-actions, so I think I can't. I probably can't
do one and that, right? That's not how that works.
That's not how that works. Play the rules right.
Yeah, not if it's the attack action. Like Blanche
says, it says you get two attacks if you take
the attack action. Yeah, so I think he looks
over to you, Blanche. You see his eyes sort of
well up red. He blinks very fast. A squirt of
blood blasts out towards you. You're within 30
feet. I can get you with this. I'm going to blood
eye squirt you. I hate that a lot. It splats
right into your face. I need you to roll for
me. Blood eye bolt. This is really cool. By the
way, stat block is from Flea Mortals. Really
cool book. A lot of cool stat blocks. Give me
a con save. Oh, okay. Hold on. We'll be blinded.
For one minute. Do I get advantage when it's
just for keeping a spell, or is it just when
I am in Bladesong? Plus four to any con saving
throw you make to maintain your concentration
spell. Okay, damn, that sucked. But still, pretty
good con here. There's a plus five. I'll give
you a button for advantage. Ooh, this might be
a good one for it. Yeah, I think so. Needed it,
I think. First was a nine, so that's a 14 total.
Next is a... Well, good thing for advantage,
because the second roll was a natural one. Ooh.
Is that 14 total? Yeah, of course. It's DC 15,
isn't it? Or probably higher than that, but...
I can't tell you what DC is, but you get the
splat. You are blinded. Great. You make saves
at the end of your turn, though, but right now,
as this blood hits you... You are stricken by
this blood in your face. It's in your eyes. Blaine's
having a really bad day. You stand between two
chairs that you no longer can see. That is my
turn. Maybe it's going to do some damage to me.
It's a crit. He's looking pretty bad. Suddenly
this thing just bites into him. I'm not going
to lose! That's my turn. That's a mimics turn.
No other mimics will be in your range. That's
Jules. I'm torn because I want to do something
to him. And I think I'm going to. He's just kicking
him while he's down. Yeah, well, first I'm going
to cast Body Conspiration onto Blanche again.
Oh, yeah, baby. I'm going to need that. That's
pretty good. It's a bonus action. Blind Blanche.
Good stuff. And then I'm going to cast Blindness
Deafness. Oh, man. On to him. All right. Tit
for tat. Oh, that is weirdly correct. Yeah. It's
a con save. That's a fail. I can tell you right
now, it's a fail. Nice. Which one? Blind or deaf?
Blind. After what could you imagine? He's like
already on stream. His eyes black over. He's
kind of held down. Nice. Nice move. This guy
is in a bad, bad spot. Is that your turn? Yeah,
that's my turn. That's you, Blanche. What are
you going to do? All right. Can she strike at
these while blind? I mean, they're right next
to her. She's in between two chairs. With disadvantage.
You know where they were. We'll just say, like,
we'll make an actual attack on this case. Okay.
And I don't get to check until the end of my
turn, you said? Not until the end of your turn.
Okay. Well, let's roll. Because you know roughly
where they are. I'm going to say, let's just
say you need to hit some static DC, right? You're
just trying to see if you can make contact. So
let's say it's a DC 10. Okay. I have 10 AC. You're
trying to hit that disadvantage on your attacks.
Okay. Ichigenka is a plus 9 to hit, so I just
have to not crit twice in a row, right? Maybe
that's... Whoa. Maybe that's not the best way
to handle this. There has to be, like, mechanically
a way to, like... I think mine literally is advantage
on attacks. Yeah, no, it's fine. That's what
it is. Wow. Yeah, and that's not even giving
me anything for knowing that the chairs are next
to me. If you're blind and you're holding a sword
in front of a chair, you know where the chair
roughly is. You're going to make contact, right?
Unless you're really goofed up. Yeah, so the
first roll is an eight. I'm attacking the lower
chair first, chair number 10, I think it is.
Okay. Second roll was higher, so that's over
10. That's a hit on the lower chair. The higher
chair, seven was the first roll. Seven was the
lower, still much over ten. So hit them both.
Hit them both. Okay. You come out, slice into
the chair. You hear... Move your hands up again.
You slice into the chair. You hear... Nice. Number
11. Here's the paper. Right there. You see it?
Hell yeah. You see one. You don't even see it.
You can feel a tongue. There's a little out towards
you. But you hear... Pink as you slice in through
wood. She leaps onto it. You jump. Tongue. You
see Jules in your spot. It's like a tongue starts
slapping down Blanche. She's leaping blind forward.
You land on this chair, probably feet on it,
sliding down. Boom. In a really cool way, sliding
off the chair. And the crowd goes wild. Hell
yeah. Yeah. And you know what? We'll call it
there.