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Justin: I don’t wanna be a rules guy, but he does have True Sight for an hour. So I do not know why that vision would be fading so quickly when I cast correct!

Justin: We don’t know what dope shit we’re gonna be doing in the next hour, I’m not gonna burn a Level 6 spell for your narrative! I’m sorry!

Well between me and Justin one of us has to be the rules guy and I’m glad its him.

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Clint: All right! Here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to cast Divination. Clint: This puts me in touch with a god or god’s servant, so in this case: Pan. I get to ask a single question— Griffin: [gleefully] Oho this is perfect, thank you. This is a gift.

I agree with Griffin here, this is one of those spells that can be a lot of fun for the GM.

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Griffin: Yeah, it sure is! Uh, okay, Taako, you’re beautiful again, but you’re gonna have to keep burning that spell in order to keep yourself— That’s great, you have fucking arcane cosmetics now! This is the best game ever made!

You know, the hat of disguise is only uncommon and you could probably get one at Fantasy Costco.

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Griffin: Alright, you step forward into the next chamber and as you enter the doorway you step foot onto a five foot square of white light and the word ‘start’ is on this square, and as soon as you step onto it, the door is just gone behind you, and you hear a loud click as a blue square the same size illuminates right in front of you, and then another, and then a green square, that has some sort of word written on it, and then this pattern continues with all these multicoloured squares just sort of appearing, forming a winding path around you-

Red Tiles are impassible, you cannot walk on them!  Yellow tiles are electric,they will electrocute you. Green tiles are alarm tiles.  If you step on them you will have to fight a monster.  Orange tiles are orange-scented.  They will make you smell delicious!  Blue tiles are water tiles.  Swim though if you like, but if you smell like oranges the piranhas will bite you.  Also, If a blue tile is next to a yellow tile, the water will also zap you.  Purple tiles are slippery, you will slide to the next tile.  However, the slippery soap smells like lemons, which piranhas do not like.  Purple and Blue are OK!  Finally, pink tiles.  They don’t do anything.  Step on them all you like.  

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Justin: I cast Disguise Self on Taako. [clapping and laughing] Justin: To make myself look like old Taako.

Perfection.

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Justin: I’m casting Polymorph on myself. Griffin: Oh fuckin’ wowww. Justin: Griffin, I’m texting you.

Oh hell yes, please tell me this is going where I think it is going.

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Merle: What is going on with my holy powers? Griffin: Here is the truthful response—this is Griffin, not Pan speaking. [“Pan” plays quietly] Here is the truthful response to your question, Merle: Pan’s not answering. And it’s not… it’s, you know beyond a shadow of a doubt, he’s just not… he’s just not there! And he’s not, he’s… he’s not there supporting you with a holy power, he’s not... He’s just— he’s just gone! And this is fuckin’ terrifying. Like you, this spell that you’re casting is essentially like a telephone call of a prayer, and Pan has always answered… but not this time. He is not there.Griffin: And it’s not like, it’s not, you can tell, it’s not like you’re getting bad reception on your prayer. You feel it going through, he’s just not— he's just not pickin’ up.

Are you there Pan?  Its me, Merle.

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Griffin: All three of you notice, at the far edge of the room just behind the mannequin body pile, and sort of adjacent to the door—the exit door to this room—all three of you see—I won’t make you roll a perception check because it’s pretty clear as day—you see a dresser just appear out of nowhere. And then it quickly disappears, and it’s replaced by a bookshelf. And then that bookshelf disappears, and then it’s a fireplace, and then it’s a lamp, and then it’s nothing. Griffin: And Magnus with your True Sight, you see the Red Robe channelling the black smoke to create those objects over there on the far end of the room.

Hmm.  It doesn’t sound like any sort of code, at least not one I can make out.  But clearly there is a purpose so what?  Is it just a distraction?  I am perplexed.  

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Travis: Okay, cool. D4 [rolls dice] 3. Plus 4, so that’s 7 damage! And then I’m gonna push him back into that sphere of tentacles and Della Reeses.

Teamwork! Finally!

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Merle: Well, because um, I mean look at Magnus. I mean, even though he's in his forties, he's kept himself up. He's in magnificent shape, um, and, um, would– would not be a gentle lover- Travis: WHOA! WHOA-HO-HO! [laughter] Griffin: Jeezy creezy. Justin: I regret this entire podcast. Merle: So don’t-- Don't go with him- Griffin: This whole podcast has been a mistake up to- because of this-

Look, don’t kinkshame Magnus.

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Magnus: Well, I mean I'm gonna stand here, but I'm not gonna- I hate this. Griffin: As you're saying that, so much of that black smog is coming out of your face. Travis: And I'm watching where it’s going.

Once again Magnus and Travis are just Very Smart.  This caught me totally off guard.

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Magnus: You could have done that this whole time? We’ve been carrying your head! Griffin: He looks over at you, Magnus, he says: Cam: [muffled by wand] Spell slots!

I do like the running joke of mages being so concerned about spell slots that they just don’t use them up at all. Its a good bit.

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Griffin: And they step through the doors, and as they do, the Red Robe leans down, and you can like, see the Red Robe doing this now, and it extends a skeletal finger and prods it into your palm and makes a mark in it of Thieves Cant, and it’s a symbol that thieves use to let others know that it’s gonna pop off soon.

I am very excited for things to pop off.

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Edward: But, uh, how about this? In your next battle here in Wonderland, you’re gonna be a real dunce. Griffin: And if you accept this— Travis: No, but what’s his punishment?

GOTTEM

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Magnus: This— this person you were guiding. Older lady? Cam: Yeah, but I mean, she got older while we were here, yeah. Magnus: Yeah, yeah, okay. Taako: Right. Right. Okay.

The director choosing to screw over someone helping her for a long term gain?  That certainly can’t be foreshadowing.