They are playing through a classic Planescape adventure, The Great Modron March, converted to 5th edition.
The Party
DM Mazz
(Shauna) Levity - Tiefling Monk linked to Glasya
(Chloe Christine) Lyra - Tiefling Paladin
(Hadeel) Miga - Tiefling Rogue an urchin who lives by the sea
(Holly Conrad) Durge - Tiefling Bard college of whispers, member of the Dustmen
(Lysa Chen) Mercy - Tiefling Shadow sorcerer from Ravenloft
(TK Johnson) Gille - Tiefling Paladin
(Kayla) Pentar - Tiefling linked to Zuggtmoy
A month has passed since the last episode. The group is living in the office building in the Clerk's Ward. S3-4N is folding laundry... packets..!
Gille is writing letters to his father. Durge is outside handing out True Death pamphlets to people on the streets of Sigil.
Lira has a dream - a message from her god. She's being directed to go to Arcadia.
The group makes their way through a portal to Arcadai. They bring S3-4N along. Miga wants him to dig in the sand. He does so, with his fork hand. They put mushrooms on him. Because she likes to clean things, Mercy polishes it off. This kind of thing happens every day, we are told.
Gille is sort of wondering why Miga, who is a little kid, is even with the group. She's an orphan, so the group has taken pity on her.
They dig up a treasure - a piece of cheese. Miga takes a bite. She makes her Con save. Pentar, a fungus enthusiast, eats the whole thing.
Lyra leads the group toward a mountain. It is Mount Clangeddin - where the dwarven gods of battle live. Lyra pushes open a set of doors.
The group explores a bit and are attacked by two metallic snakes. One snake bites Mercy and does 9 damage to her. Gille is bit - he's poisoned and confused.
S3-4N does a cool 5 damage with the fork. S34N actually kills one, which is awesome. Durge kills the other one, stabbing it through the head, Australian Outback style.
The group explores a bit and comes to a square room with levers on the walls. Levity pulls two levers, and a door slides open. Beyond it, there's a figure lying on the floor. It's a black dragonborn. He ate a mushroom and he got here... this is Pentar's doing.
Down a corridor is a marble arch. There's a pedestal with a crystal sphere on it.
They find a bunch of bones, and up ahead they see a shimmering mithral tankard. There are joyous dwarven faces carved on it. Levity approaches it - she can sense a magic aura around it.
After some study, Levity realizes that speaking a command word fills it with dwarven ale. It's basically an endless mug of ale. Perfect for Levity, who is a drunken master monk.
Lyra feels drawn to a nearby bowl. She senses that her god wants to talk to her through it.
S3-4N is walking around, on snake patrol. He looks up and starts poking at the bones. "What is dead?", he asks Durge. Durge enthusiastically explains that dead means "deactivated."
He asks Miga if she will deactivate. "No, probably not." He perks up and nods.
Lyra has a vision - she sees eyes in darkness. Her god tells her that it is impossible to divine the future. Soon, she will see nothing and will be nothing. This has something to do with Mercy.
Gille pulls Lyra aside and tells her that they are in a temple of Selune. Lyra thinks it was Savras who contacted her. Savras is a god of divination who sees all and knows all. He's often worshiped by spellcasters, and his symbol is a circle full of eyes.
Lyra is confused - she doesn't want to be linked to Savras. Lyra says she was an urchin as a child. Gille is a bit put off, coming from a noble family and everything.
Miga made a drawing with crayons. Hadeel did this in real life with real crayons. Her hands are dirty. She asks Mercy to clean them. Mercy enthusiastically does so, with prestidigitation.
That's where we stop!
TK requests fan art of S3-4N fighting a burning snake.
Heyy! They gave me a shout out at the end! Sheesh, how lucky am I?
Overall
Fun show! Looking forward to seeing the group deal with a horde of modrons in the coming weeks. Levity with a mug of endless ale should be quite amusing.
6 comments:
How is this already the most disliked (youtube dislikes) show of all the official D&D shows and episodes in the past 30 days?
These two episodes have more dislikes than all other episodes of D&D shows since June 4th combined. What am I missing?
Lazy DM techniques perhaps. I read a lot of "her god tells her...", "she senses that her god...". If that's the price of doing a stream - not letting players themselves figure something out, with the risk of them discussing and trying things for half an hour or more - the dislikes are well deserved.
I personally also dislike inside jokes like the "hilarious" modron and packet jokes.
Yeah, the inside joke feel they try so hard to exude is kinda cringy. It pushes the audience away.
It's like the show insists on itself.
You know, the inside joke complaint is fair. Even as somebody who's in on the joke, it stops being funny and just becomes tiring when you overplay it for too long.
That said, hopefully that feeling y'all mentioned will die off as the show goes on, just by the nature of a game group discovering running gags of their own through play. That's the kind of thing the entire audience can share in--like we've seen on shows like Acq. Inc. ("GREEN FLAME!", "Pat Rothfuss can do anything he wants because he has blackmail on Chris Perkins", etc.)
The show will be done in under ten episodes.
WotC will announce its new Planescape setting, marketed like "now you can play just like Holly Conrad's Trapped In The Birdcage game! ...please disregard that other, problematic show."
Most players have no idea about any dnd streaming shows, so it won't really matter.
Money will be made.
Then we can all forget this ever happened.
Sean, is your blog on hiatus? Are you a video person now? I would regret that because I do not watch videos, but I liked reading your blog.
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