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Season 1 Episode 15: Hot Takes with Cold Dips
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We weren't even invited to this party and now we're in charge of saving it? What kind of party fouls are we going to run into? Join us for our penultimate episode this season!
This is a fully improvised TTRPG campaign using the Kids on Bikes system where we test the limits on how much flexibility our players can have.
Starring:
- Tucker Dally Johnston as 'Alfie Towers'
- Ivana Mendez as 'Chad Brewers'
- Nate Valentine as 'Janet JC. Cromwell'
- Paul Emrich as 'Game Master'.
- Music provided by 'Rebel Kicks'.
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Beat Our Quest'
00:00:11
Speaker
This is Beat Our Quest, an improvised comedy role-playing podcast using the Kids on Bikes system. And even though you can't see us, we are all wearing our helmets.
00:00:23
Speaker
Ivana Maria Mendez Bubble as Chad Boers. Tucker Dally Johnston as Alfie Towers. Nate Valentine as Janet Cromwell.
Investigating Jackie Swunch's Home
00:00:38
Speaker
Last time, the party continued their investigation of Jackie Swunch's home, searching for whatever strange thing occurred during their homecoming ah party. They continued to explore and find various party fouls that had committed and little tiny index cards that had written out the various violations that the party goers had caused.
00:00:59
Speaker
ah various rooms like a living room that was eating garbage, to a basement with stuffed dolls and heads mounted on the wall that attacked the players. Eventually, Alfie ended up getting in trouble with the chaperone, having promised him he it was going to stand still there. um When he came back, he realized he had broken the rule, and we find ourselves now with him about to be captured in the chaperone's palm pilot.
00:01:25
Speaker
Do I see the light? Am I facing... The light, I can't remember. I'm going to say no because I like the aesthetic of this like black goth outline and this like blast of light around you. I hadn't quite decided if it is like a pokeball and like lands at your feet and you get pulled into it, or if you kind of get enshrined in the light and like miniaturized la those weird 80s, 90s movies. um Whichever feels the most natural to you. Which type of abduction do you prefer, yeah How did you imagine it?
00:01:56
Speaker
Yeah, i probably getting enshrined in the light and then like 2D 8-bit-sized and shrunk down.
00:02:07
Speaker
Like you feel the depth of your body.
Chad's Distraction and Attempted Escape
00:02:10
Speaker
um Chad, yeah as you see Alfie about to be captured in the same way that Heather was captured earlier in that night, um what is your instinct? What do you do? Oh, dear.
00:02:22
Speaker
Yeah. I'm going to yell, everything is good in this room. There are no more children in there. Supervision completed.
00:02:33
Speaker
ah Sometimes you guys just make choices that I'm just totally ill-prepared for. Jen, can you make a charm roll of 10? Maybe. Oh, that's be hard. Okay.
00:02:48
Speaker
It's on the ground. It's on the heard that dice clatter from the other room. What kind of like, was it made of steel? Five. It's, I didn't. The chaperone completely ignores your your statement and continues to envelop Alfie in this light. I'm going to push Chad out of the way and I'm going try to jump and and interrupt the process.
Escape from the Creepy Basement
00:03:12
Speaker
I'm going to try to tackle Alfie. You're so strong. Oh no. This is the other end of the spectrum for you, Paul. Yeah, Jesus. And also, like, would have been great if you guys just swapped plants, I think, based on the status. Right, yeah. I roll really good for strength. Look out. I guess this is a brawn roll of eight.
00:03:30
Speaker
um Okay, one sec. My brawn. And do I get any sort of modifier? I could add... I have a pocket. I'm sorry. What am I trying to beat, Paul? I rolled a four. An eight. Okay. So I'm going to use my pocket D6. Okay.
00:03:46
Speaker
To bring it up to a nine. Let's go. Wow. And that is my blue. That's my ah blue energy. roll Correct. And does everyone. I think so one of you used one of yours earlier, but I don't remember what the situation was. I don't know if you guys have been keeping track of that.
00:04:02
Speaker
have been writing it down. I think Ivana used hers to get one point higher. I think used mine. Yeah. With small heads. Describe yourself knocking Alfie out of this light. Great.
00:04:15
Speaker
um So Alfie's got his bat. He's, you know, blast from behind, hands up, kind of like starfished out. um His eyes are going to bulge as he sees me coming at him. No idea what's going on, although I assume you've kind of pieced together maybe that you you've got the chaperone behind you.
00:04:34
Speaker
knock the wind right out of them. And then we both tumble down the stairs. Back into the basement. We're in a stairwell, right? Uh, yep. Tumble back down to the basement. You go back into the basement where the stuffed animals were. Do say that or be abducted, guys? I feel like this is a net positive. I love a bold decision. Chad.
00:04:54
Speaker
said supervision was complete of that room. Alfie, can you make grit roll eight? um You just took a huge hit. You got tackled, blasted by light, and now fell down into the basement.
00:05:10
Speaker
There wasn't like a landing at the bottom of the stairs or something. Remember it was a hatch and it was like an old school fifty s like ladder that you climbed up? Yeah, i remember. I just didn't realize we were going to roll that far down. I'm shocked you said that and I cannot take this opportunity away. 15. Nice. Why do you take no damage from this fall?
00:05:28
Speaker
After... The last time of my fight, I guess, with Jackie Swanch, anytime ah I go to the ground with a female, I instinctively cut my nads and tuck and roll. It took me a second to register that Janet was the person Duke tackled with, so way to go.
00:05:52
Speaker
I'll be clear there was 0% chance I was going to touch your nads, Alfie, but I'm glad you didn't take any damage. The last time someone tackled me, I got kicked right in the dingus. Wow. Okay, we're going to... Of all the options, I didn't think we'd end up back in the basement. You slam onto the ground. You guys are... Janet, you also are pretty nimble. You were ready for this. I'm going to let you make a flight roll of six to see if you can grab onto the ladder.
00:06:22
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um and stop yourself from going all the way down to the basement. um I roll a two. Okay, so you know you aren't you make your your fingers graze the ladder and you hit the ground with Alfie.
Devising an Escape Plan
00:06:33
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Your eyes open. um the The mag light you had is still down there in the basement.
00:06:39
Speaker
um So the light is there. And you see those little stuffed animal heads, which had started to kind of roll away, have slowly turned their heads and have pivoted to look back at you guys. Chad. Yeah? You're face to face with the chaperone. Are you going to try to scream this command again? or are you going to do something different?
00:06:55
Speaker
Well, I want to... Just want to em here um you're of legal aid. You're asking the chaperone that? It doesn't look like a real person, right? That's a great question, kiddo. Let me think about that. It's going to make a brains roll.
00:07:11
Speaker
My system sure says I'm registered to be a healthy 42. Excellent. So you have betting privileges. I might know a few things about the ponies.
00:07:22
Speaker
what do you what What do you want to know, kiddo? Just in case, I'm trying to distract him so they have time to get out of the basement and not get in trouble. That is the purpose of my betting talk. All right.
00:07:38
Speaker
We'll let this all have happened while Alfie and Janet are in the basement. I'll let you guys do the same thing I let you do last time. You guys can try to climb right up the ladder and escape, or one of you can do something to like ah stall it and make it easier for the other one, or whatever you'd like.
00:07:55
Speaker
I'm trying to get out of this stuffed animal building, so I'm right up on the ladder, and I'm like, come on, Alfie. Come on, Alfie. Great. Make another flight roll of six. Let's get out of here. We can avoid the chaperone and avoid these stuffed animals and make our way back to Jackie.
00:08:11
Speaker
Seven. You make it, your hands are climbing up one after the other. You've done this before. this You were just down there a second ago. This is a comfortable ladder climb. You watch as a rabbit kind of whizzes past your head and his little black beady marble eyes kind of make slow eye contact with you. Um, but you don't get distracted. You don't fall. Alfie, in this, in that rabbit drops next to you. Yeah. Alfie, did you have any stuffed animals as a kid?
00:08:36
Speaker
I did. Um, I used to have a, uh, ah Before my incident at the aquarium, I had a little stuffed ah squid um named Octopusin.
00:08:55
Speaker
And... One day when I didn't do my homework on time, you know, for fourth grade, ah my father took octopus and away and for every piece of homework I missed, he cut one of its tentacles off.
00:09:17
Speaker
So I have a really weird thing with stuffed animals and they make me miss my childhood and I don't like it and so I'm going to kick the rabbit and then go up.
00:09:29
Speaker
Make a fight roll of five. Five. And just like a pile of fluff just like bursts at your feet as the little cotton rabbit explodes with the kick. Now I'm just going to make a flight roll of eight to just like sling your way back up the ladder. It's a little harder because obviously there's more going on. You're going from the bottom.
00:09:51
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and That's a five. You're climbing up the ladder and you feel this bite on your foot. o Going forward for the rest of the session, you're going to have a disadvantage on any checks that would involve you like jumping, running, kicking, using your feet. Because there's a stuffed rabbit hanging off his foot for the rest
Confrontation with Jackie Swunch
00:10:17
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of the day? that what bit me? Beaver. oh beaver! Beaver!
00:10:20
Speaker
Big old stump beaver. You look down and a beaver has clamped down on your foot. And while you were trying to kick and shake it off, its big old beaver tail slams down onto your other foot and breaks the toes on it. Oh my God.
00:10:36
Speaker
Broken toes. Wow. out It's brutal down there. Make your way up. The chaperone is arguing, is having a very intense discussion with Chad. No, I am not giving you my lifeguard money for you to invest it in and the New York Jets. I don't see a future with them. Well, you see, sport, it's what we call a sure thing.
00:10:59
Speaker
You guys have climbed your way up. Are you guys going to try to sneak past the chaperone? I need to sneak past because he has already tried to yeah ah light me once. um So I am going to use my unassuming ah perk and spend two adversity tokens to not be seen.
00:11:18
Speaker
Chad? Yeah? How do you want to end this conversation with the chaperone? It's been great chatting with you as always. You too, kid. Hey, and remember, it's not a win until the money's in your hands.
00:11:32
Speaker
You're so wise. It kind of winks, but it just has a digital eye that like kind of like seals and closes up again or mechanical eye that's seals and closes up again. Janet, are you going to try to sneak up or you going to go right up? I'm going to try to sneak up. I wanted to like peek my head over the trap door and kind of assess whether we're in the line of sight of the chaperone. Because you're I'm letting you wait, essentially, and you're using your best opportunity. I'm going to let you make a flight roll of four just to try to like get up and get out.
00:12:00
Speaker
Okay. I rolled a six. So this do you guys eventually catch up outside of Jackie Swench's room? All right, that was close. Well, I'm not trapped in a ball of light, but I got beaver smacked on the foot and it really hurts. Whoa, Alfie. There's no way. That's not a proper way of saying that. got beaver bit on my toesies and then- Alfie! What? Alfie, you can't say that.
00:12:29
Speaker
I don't understand. I'm just describing the physical action of a hairy beaver biting me on my front toes, on my foot, and then the beaver tail, you know where the tail is on a beaver, came out and just broke a couple of my toes on my right foot, you guys. I'm really worried about it and my health.
00:12:50
Speaker
You really know how to party. Wow. I really don't. When we get out of this, that that looks like it's definitely going to get infected. But I have a first aid kit. We can take a look at it later. Okay, Alfie? was a nasty beeper.
00:13:04
Speaker
Okay, boys, break it up. We've got stuff to do. We never found the batteries,
Matching Party Violations
00:13:11
Speaker
did we? No, you actively decided against it. In fact, there's a moment where you go, Nate had a flashlight. You went, wait, Nate, you had batteries. He went, not for Jackie or something like that.
00:13:23
Speaker
And I stand by it. So you guys eventually look up as you've been arguing about these beavers and you see ah ah Jackie Swunch staring at you guys with their arms crossed, um waiting to see. And she goes, did you guys bring me batteries or not? Hmm.
00:13:38
Speaker
Pass. Sorry, we couldn't find any. I told you where they were. they're in the They're in the garage. And the chaperone was there. And also, what's going on with your haunted, horrible, stuffed animal basement, okay?
00:13:52
Speaker
What's going on with your basement beaver down there? Because it really is very mean and aggressive. I'm going to forgive you talking about my basement beaver because that's a little rude, Alfie.
00:14:04
Speaker
But regardless, i got them because they're collectible. They might be worth something one day. Not covered in all my blood or not. Definitely not that rabbit. I hope that wasn't worth any money. Jackie, you need to let me know where you got that rug. Because I feel like my room needs a statement piece. And that's kind of the rug I've been looking for. guys not talk so much about the house. I didn't. I just it's not. I just put it together for this party. It's not even like I don't live in here. This is just like a no one should live here.
00:14:33
Speaker
It's evil. It's haunted. The rugs and the beavers. Yeah, they're really freaky. Jackie, that basement. Also, we might have killed the microwave. I'm sorry. That's my pet. What? No. I'm just kidding. That'd be weird. It's a microwave. All right.
00:14:47
Speaker
How do we get the kids free, Jackie? We have all the old placards. So I'm going to read them out loud so you guys know have to see what they were written on them. um The following. Nutritional sabotage and caloric tampering.
00:15:00
Speaker
Unsanitary biological contamination via reuse. Unsupervised interdimensional communication ritual. Accelerated hormones via concealment challenge.
00:15:13
Speaker
unpermitted territory entry and visual surveillance and community volume violations. ah Jackie's ah looking over these. he goes I don't, I don't even know what any of these mean. I look guys, I'll be honest. I've never been to one of your part. I've never been to a human party. I have no idea. I built this whole thing based around a bunch of data, scraping movies and TV shows and stuff like that. So all of these are just, don't know, human things.
00:15:40
Speaker
You know what they mean, right? They're definitely not human things. yourto w bomb um I think I know what a few of them mean, but what do we what are we supposed to do? if we like Do we do tell chaperone, like, hey, it's okay that they did this? Because, like, you know, Can say...
00:16:02
Speaker
i say Fuck. No. Uh-oh. Don't know how we do that one. Squeegeo boards. There we go.
00:16:13
Speaker
Really screwed myself with that thing. ah Ghost board. Spirit boards. Spirit boards. spirit board. goes, look, here's how it's going to work.
00:16:24
Speaker
I take these little cards and I can match them up. And she gestures to her closet where there's a bunch of those orbs have been laid out. And she goes, if I match up the orb with the the data, I can release them. I'm basically taking their memories and their bodies and merging them back together.
00:16:39
Speaker
Um, the problem is if we get it wrong, we risk them not ever really coming back. Well, I'm sorry. What did that like dead for it like dead? Like, well, it just sort of the, it's a there's like the the data starts to break down. You're talking about human people, Jackie, human people. Let's just, uh, let's just say human people, human people start to break down.
00:17:04
Speaker
Oh God. Also, I just want to give a suggestion small suggestion next time instead of index cards i would use post-its because it might be easier to put it like on surfaces so we can see them and we can study them and so i feel like if we put a card up you have to balance it against the wall chad this is very helpful and when i make my second chaperone I will take these notes. Don't make any more chaperones ever. What do you mean? Janet, you seem like the... Yeah, how are you not... This is so clearly an enormous failure, Jackie. I can't believe you would even say the word second chaperone. I want to point out that the first three hours of my party were great. Wow. Before the chaperone got involved. don't think so. I think everyone was over at my place. Okay, okay. So... How would you know? You've never been to one. I don't like this pick on Jackie game. Okay? Okay.
00:18:03
Speaker
I messed up. I'm human. Nope. Wait. We know that to be false. Okay. Okay. Okay. Beep, beep, beep. I'm Jackie. Beep, beep, don't think she's a robot though. I think she's some sort of alien. You could go like gloop, gloop, gloop. I'm Jackie. That might make more sense though. It's very rude for you to think that aliens can't communicate in beeps. They could also communicate with beeps. Oh, Chad, you were defending me for all the wrong reasons.
00:18:29
Speaker
um Feminism! Do you just shout feminism when you when you agree with something a woman has said? Yeah, it was discovered like 15 years ago, right? The concept of feism feminism was discovered 15 years ago? ah Jackie, we need save these kids!
00:18:48
Speaker
Pass. Pass! All right, Jackie, what do we have to do to save these kids who are going to die? Pick ah pick one and I can identify where the the sphere was from found. Uh, um, the something contamination through reuse. Okay, contamination through reuse. D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d.
00:19:08
Speaker
Okay, um this is found, and she's looking at the case. She found the sphere, and she was like, this is in the um the the living room, right? yeah Okay. Yep. And she takes it, it's and you see, you look inside, and you see Samantha Bringaz is inside of there.
00:19:24
Speaker
I know why Samantha Bringuez is inside of there. everyone Everyone thought I was really weird carrying around my little baggies of dips, okay? But it's for a very specific reason. It was because in middle school, you know, Samantha Bringuez was in a grade above me, and she came over, and she asked if she could have a chip and dip it, and I said yes, and she did, and then she did it twice, and a week later, i got pink eye.
00:19:54
Speaker
What? She double dipped. She double dipped. Disgusting. And now I carry my own packet of sort of of dips with me in little baggies and no one can have them. That makes sense now. No, it still doesn't make sense to carry bags of dip in your pocket. Perfect sense. It's fucking weird. No, it's great.
00:20:12
Speaker
Something maybe we should start doing, Janet. We should. We should all learn from Samantha Brinkins. I'd rather not eat. it It doesn't make any sense to me. You're carrying around Cool Ranch dip yeah and French onion dip yup in a Ziploc bag,
Solving the Orb Puzzle
00:20:27
Speaker
Alfie. It can be other flavors. If that's not your favorite, we can change it up. um Yes, queso.
00:20:34
Speaker
Sour cream. That Samantha Bringuez is a dirty double dipper. Always has been, always will be. But that's that's why she's in there. That's Samantha Bringuez. Jad, be careful when you go to prom with her, okay? Let's leave her at the index card. No, that's not what I'm saying. you You match that one up. Move on to the next one.
00:20:53
Speaker
does any i don't Do you want me to read one of them? and then one this There's the hormones one, right? Concealed hormones? What's the name of that one?
00:21:04
Speaker
That was accelerated hormones via concealment challenge. There were two spheres together for this one. Oh, that was easy. They were making out of the closet. That sounds like seven minutes in heaven to me. That's what Chad would do.
00:21:18
Speaker
it's what Wait, that's what seven minutes in heaven is? ah Well, I think it kind of depends on the people playing, but yeah, more or less, I'll be with the rest of your imagination. Yeah.
00:21:29
Speaker
You told me to do that with Jackie in the museum. Yeah, we did. That was before we knew she was a ah a monstrous alien, and I looked directly at Jackie. We were on a school field trip. Alfie, you dog. No, that's not. No, I didn't. I wasn't planning. I just wanted to know what it was. In a laboratory? No, I, well, I didn't.
00:21:52
Speaker
I didn't know. I didn't. and Also, I'm not talking to you. You caused this. You participated in it. Anyways, let's move on to the next one. We have two spheres. ah Nate, who's a ah one of the less popular girls on the cheer squad? Oh, um Christina Fertzow. Shh!
00:22:14
Speaker
God, why? Christina... from um Because it sounds like farts, Paul. ah um Christina long is there with ah a boy who you are unfamiliar with, um but it's Danny Pigeons.
00:22:30
Speaker
ah Jessica Pigeons' brother. I was going to say, that name sounds familiar to me. So you you pair those off together. ah let Let's move on to the next one.
00:22:41
Speaker
I think there's a player on the Jets that's a Pigeons. Same family. Same family. Do want me to read you through some of the other ones? Yes, I think we need you to. That's great. There's nutritional sabotage and caloric tampering. That was also found in the living room in the party room by the Punchbowl.
00:22:58
Speaker
There's unsupervised interdimensional communication ritual that was found in the basement. I know that one. I know that one. I want talk about that one. You know that want talk about that one because I tried really hard to you know to get into the goth vibe. um ah So I watched ah about the first five minutes of every scary movie I could before turning them off because i got too scary.
00:23:21
Speaker
But i know i know all about I know all about kids trying to summon things with spooky ghost boards. And it's always either in the basement or in the attic.
00:23:32
Speaker
I think some kids were using... You know, this spirit would to to try to to try to summon something and the chaperone came in. I don't know why anyone would try to summon something in that basement. There's already things there that are summoned from the depths of hell. People do that for real?
00:23:49
Speaker
Aren't they scared of the devil? Oh boy. Chat, we'll have a talk about um theism ah later. Maybe later. Maybe I'll have to explain what goth is as well.
00:24:01
Speaker
It seems like you've figured out what that one is and you paired those up with the basement. Yeah, who were the kids in the basement doing spooky boys? That would be Betsy Pears, who you haven't met, and Fred Chairses, who's recovering from ah ah his bite wound.
00:24:16
Speaker
Oh my god. Fred Chairses. So we have three more left. As you guys are talking this out, You hear somebody going up the stairs.
00:24:30
Speaker
It's the chaperone. And you hear it saying, Jackie, there better not be anyone in your room. You know you're grounded. boy. When she hears that, she drops the ball she's carrying.
00:24:45
Speaker
Oh, for fuck. And they land on the ground. There are three left, and you three have to identify who they could be purely based off of memory of how things have gone down.
00:24:57
Speaker
Because ah they're only you only know who's inside of them, and you won't know the location they were found in. So inside of those three orbs okay is Heather McGregor, ah who's Trixie Steele's best friend.
00:25:11
Speaker
okay You have Johnny Mellon's local bad boy. And as you peer into the last one, you recognize Zeke the Meatball Matowski. Zeke, no!
00:25:22
Speaker
Not my baby! You have three party fouls that have been committed, and the three of you have to figure out who did which based off of what you know about these characters and how things have happened and let you figure that out.
00:25:35
Speaker
Do we get a reminder of which was which? I know we have. yeah Sure. That's absolutely. So there's a nutritional sabotage and caloric tampering, unpermitted territory entry and visual surveillance and the community volume violation.
00:25:50
Speaker
If you make a brains rule, I'll let one of you make a brains rule of 12 and And I can give you a clue. I think, I mean, i don't know if Alfie would know this. Tucker knows all three. Yeah, I have a pretty good intuition. I rolled a 16. Then I think you can consult with Alfie to see if you want to. If Alfie knows, if Tucker knows what, you can figure these out and we do do this without even me giving a clue, I think it'll make better decisions.
00:26:14
Speaker
All right. Well... um ah The tampering one, umm I'm pretty sure ah i've heard I've heard of this, um you know, because I read books on um how to not get beat up so much in high school. um I think someone spiked the punch and...
00:26:41
Speaker
I would bet it might have been Heather McGregor. But wouldn't that, I'm not gonna say any guesses right now. Volume violation? I'm pretty sure i know who the loudest guy in the entire world is. And then what was it? um on the The one we found, we found it outside. Unpermitted territory. Unpermitted territory. and and And visual surveillance. Visual surveillance.
00:27:11
Speaker
I think ah Johnny Mellons would never get invited to this ah party. um Right? What do you guys think? I kind of thought that Johnny Melons would be the creep spike in the punch of the party, if I'm being honest.
00:27:25
Speaker
But I do get your point. He wouldn't be invited. That guy sucks. I just don't think that's... But Zeke would never betray me. He would never be inside this party. He has to be the one outside.
00:27:37
Speaker
thought this was going to be easier, huh? Shit. I definitely thought we were all going to be on the same page. It's interesting that you all took some totally different evidence. Fun. Okay, keep going.
00:27:48
Speaker
um and And also, Heather's pretty loud, too. Not for nothing. Her and Trixie, blah, blah, blah, all That's true. Practice when they should be jeering. That's true.
00:27:58
Speaker
Oh, boy. And Heather likes to dance. You can't blame a girl who likes to dance. For what? Oh. You can be loud and dance, Chad. Yeah.
00:28:10
Speaker
Well, I just can't remember if i can't remember if Johnny would have been invited to to the party. i feel like that's kind of the first the first piece of the puzzle for me.
00:28:21
Speaker
Is he the creep peeping or is he the creep Wait, spiking the pun but there was a... Weren't we discovering who was bringing the alcohol to this party? Yes.
00:28:34
Speaker
and it was And it was Heather? Was was it Was it? Hold on. are we in How much time do we have? Because the chaperone's coming up the stairs. it's i don't there's I'm only putting fake pressure on you guys. I'm enjoying watching you guys twist in the wind and try to solve this riddle. hate this so much. Okay, keep going. um I will let you.
00:28:56
Speaker
you rolled a You rolled enough for me to give you a clue. The reason you know one of these people is you saw it happen. Mm-hmm. It is an unfair test of our memory, Paul. This is, I feel like unfair, but it's also like, I do feel like some of these are pretty straight on the money for who the characters are. Well, then is it Meatball outside Johnny Melon's with the, I can't figure, oh God.
00:29:21
Speaker
no. I would take your, I would put your bet, put your guesses in. We put our guesses in, kids could die. One of them is Meatball.
00:29:32
Speaker
No, my best friend. Like taking my liver. um Who was at the party? Who was at my party? I was too busy cleaning you guys. Who was at my party?
00:29:47
Speaker
Well, it wasn't Heather, right? Heather was buying alcohol for Trixie's party. Or for, sorry, for... I thought so.
00:29:57
Speaker
For Jackie and Trixie's party. So she would have been the one to spike the punch with her alcohol. I assume so, or she just brought it and left it at the kitchen. I'm going to go final answer, Heather.
00:30:09
Speaker
Party, party, spike in the pot. You guys all locking in your guesses as you but you line up? you you You have this moment as you're placing out these placards? You put them in one at a time, right? Well, do we have to go do we have to go all three at once? Like, I'm totally fine losing... Listen, I don't mean to be this guy, but I'm totally fine losing Heather and Johnny Mellon's first. Well, do you want to do you want to lock in one of them? Oh, we should guess Johnny Mellon's first.
00:30:32
Speaker
we can know we yeah I'm okay. I'm okay. Can we just throw Johnny's ball in the garbage? Talk about something Paul wasn't anticipating.
00:30:47
Speaker
and Tell me how you want to do this and I will i will figure out how we handle this. That's my job as the DM. I want to lock in Heather spiking the punch. yeah You have this moment and you you you place these out and you you immediately you recognize something's wrong.
00:31:03
Speaker
oh No. the The other ones plinked, contained easily. um The ball shifted in light and it became like clearly unlockable. This one begins to hiss and fizz and fizzle. Little bits of smoke and electrical charge begin to come and the paper begins to crackle. Yeah. I'll snag it. Oh, not that one. Not that one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. um No, no, no, no. Chad, make a flight roll of six.
00:31:30
Speaker
Six. You grab the thing, your hand, but you don't burn them, ah which is good. But the the card has started to break apart a little bit. ah Little bits of the whatever remained of Heather maybe has been lost.
00:31:43
Speaker
you want to another shot? If she didn't spike it, then then it had to be Johnny in balance.
00:31:53
Speaker
had to. Lock it in. Lock it in. And leave it in. Locks in. Johnny Melons absolutely matches up with that. Johnny Melons was the one who would have spiked the punch. Heather would have brought it. But Johnny Melons is the kind of person who would find it funny to put alcohol in people's punch.
00:32:10
Speaker
Heather wouldn't. I hate to say it, Chad. I know he's your friend, but I think Meatball had to have been the creeper. It couldn't have been Heather. She was invited. She brought the drinks. Maybe he just maybe he just followed us here.
00:32:24
Speaker
Maybe that's it. He followed us here. he didn't He didn't come before us. There's no way. There's no way. i still think he's the the creeper. yeah I agree with you, Janet. I agree. I'm just saying the timing of it. He came after were here. He followed us here.
00:32:42
Speaker
I refuse to believe any other. that makes it any weirder if you was looking in going to lock in Meatball being the creeper? Yeah. You do. You lock it in. That was the sphere that the chaperone brought in after you guys told Trixie Steele to leave.
00:32:56
Speaker
So there's a good chance that Meatball was just outside because he was checking to see out how you guys were doing after leaving the party.
00:33:07
Speaker
He was looking through the the windows. What a quite a good guy. Best friend. go guy ah quick Put in fair put me Heather's thing in the being too loud one before she dissolves completely. You line up Heather's her thing chambers and if you guys want to know how were supposed to solve this, Meatball was at your party.
00:33:26
Speaker
yeah okay And Heather was the one who you guys saw get captured um and you had the community volume violation was the first thing you saw getting um Oh damn it, we're so dumb.
00:33:39
Speaker
you know That was because she so she failed and she screamed for help. That one should have been a gimmick. And she's in her and Trixie are annoying. Right, and she's Trixie's best friend. you know i mean so ah um You did okay on that puzzle as you've locked them all in. I got every single one of my guesses wrong.
00:33:57
Speaker
You've locked these all in, and just as you click Heather's in, it makes this whir that signals that it was successful like all the other ones had been, and the chaperone bursts into the room. it has a very menacing energy. It is clearly smashed
Debating Moral Hierarchy
00:34:09
Speaker
the door open. Something has caused the wiring in its brain to fizzle and change. Uh, it is, it is discombobulated and it's perspective of right and wrong, having been tricked and lied to multiple times in the same night. And it looks to all of you,
00:34:25
Speaker
And it goes, you've all caused me quite a problem. I'm having a a a difficult time deciding what's right and wrong. I need this you three to take those violations and rank them from best to worst.
00:34:42
Speaker
What? which the so this the three of you... in but in real life hey are going to rank those six violations that people committed at the party from biggest offense to most minor offense.
00:34:57
Speaker
The differences you have in total between you guys as a ranking is going to be an effect that I put on you guys, which will affect each individually. I want you guys to to sit take a second right now from those six violations. you If I can read out just what they are in normal. again yeah Okay.
00:35:18
Speaker
Ready? Yeah. So this is spiking drinks at a party, double dipping, using a Ouija board,
00:35:29
Speaker
playing seven minutes in heaven, being a peeping Tom and being too loud. I do have a question and I'm not trying to to tamper the jury pool here, but, um,
00:35:42
Speaker
Is Peeping Tom, are we ranking Peeping Tom in the abstract? Are we ranking Meatball coming to look in a window to check on his friends? Abstract. this is In the abstract. Okay, okay, okay. In the abstract. This is not Meatball happenstantially looking in a window to see if his friends are okay. You got a question? Yes, Tucker? Yeah. um In the context of...
00:36:04
Speaker
bad for party fouls or in the context of ah of a legal yeah system? um I think in the sense that this is a robot that has been programmed for this, they've definitely been muddied.
00:36:17
Speaker
um There's definitely like no nothing illegal about playing seven minutes in heaven. So even in the sense of like, we're discussing morality where you guys find the moral right and wrong of being dared, you know, this is tough. I'll be shocked if we don't have some interesting, uh, it's like a whole, there's like a whole side episode, the, the conversation. So I was originally going to have you guys plead legal cases and have a law and order thing, but that would involve me talking a lot.
00:36:47
Speaker
And I feel like this is more fun to have you guys sit here and be like, you did what? So I'm going to say which is the least worst. And you guys are all going to tell me what you've ranked and we're going to move up and down and we'll we'll see. Sorry, I'm struggling. um Does it make more sense to do the worst because you might be most aligned with those or the least worst?
00:37:07
Speaker
Let's go, let's go, um I don't know, but i don't know which is ah which is more fun, top to the I think that we're going to have you guys say the worst, at most worst, to the least worst, because I think we're going to see somebody say, like, that's your worst thing? More than we'll have somebody be like.
00:37:24
Speaker
All right, let me know when you guys are ready. No rush.
00:37:29
Speaker
Let's see, we've done a riddle boss fight, we've done a regular fight, and now we're doing a morality battle. Okay.
00:37:40
Speaker
I'm going to, the distance you are from the other two is going to be a minus point to you. Okay. So if Nate and Ivana said one and Tucker said three, that would be minus two points for Tucker.
00:37:54
Speaker
All of these minuses, I'm letting you know the stakes for this. You might not remember, but I brought this up multiple times. Do you guys know what kind of party this is tonight that you threw? ah sick rager. Homecoming party.
00:38:06
Speaker
Tomorrow is the homecoming game. Oh. So every time you do badly, it's going to affect how well you're going to be able to perform. Okay. In tomorrow's homecoming. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Now, what in your example, you said if if Nate and Ivana say rank something one.
00:38:28
Speaker
and and Tucker said three. Reframe this. If let's say Ivana and Tucker or Chad and Alfie rank something at one and Nate ranks it at three, Janet ranks it at three.
00:38:39
Speaker
do I get two points or do they get negative two points because they're wrong and I'm right? You're you're looking to see the different how differently you you're trying to... You're trying to get this robot, his morality compass, to a align.
00:38:53
Speaker
So our compasses have to align. So you guys, every time you guys don't line up... It's going to cause dysfunction in this robot. Okie dokie. Does that all make sense? Yeah.
00:39:03
Speaker
you So you guys want to do for most immoral or least immoral? We gotta start most. So the worst one? The worst thing. yeah The absolute worst thing. Okay, okay. okay yeah What's the best way to do this? have any you guys say it out loud? Like...
00:39:18
Speaker
Just on the count of three, everyone blurted out. yeah On the count of three, which is number one, the most immoral? One, yeah two, three. Spiking the drink. Peeping Tom. What did Tucker say? Peeping. Okay, so Tucker, you have to keep track of your own score. Okay, how... the Tucker gets one. Okay, he gets one. We don't get any points.
00:39:36
Speaker
Do we do we get ah does he get a minute to justify his incorrect opinion? Yeah, why get justify peeping is worse than spiking a drink. Because that could be a complete random stranger, a home invader who's coming to do harm upon your family. um I think someone spiking, while it being wrong, ah happens in a spirit of of ah enjoyment for all-ish.
00:40:05
Speaker
ish ah but Depends on what they're spiking it with. Let's move on to number two then. Which maybe is Alfie's going lose another one. Ready? One, two, three. Spiking. Double dipping. What? No way. No
00:40:28
Speaker
way. There's absolutely no way that the top two could not be spiking drinks and peeping Tom. Babe, did you really put double dipping as the second largest offense?
00:40:39
Speaker
Okay, I need you to make your argument for why. Otherwise, you're going to take two points. Well, because John the Apostle was out for three weeks after scooping into someone's dip, as he put it. And so that's why think double dipping is bad.
00:40:55
Speaker
e Because he had mono. my God. Okay, well. There we go. Hard to argue with that. Hard to argue. ah Number three, most of moral.
00:41:08
Speaker
We're screwed. One, two three. think Tom? Seven minutes in heaven. Too loud.
00:41:18
Speaker
None of ours are going to match up and All of you are not matched up. You all take one point. Number four. ah wait. I mean, all of you, who you said Peeping Tom was number three. Who said that? Ivana? Yeah.
00:41:33
Speaker
Why did you say for number three, Nate? Being too loud? Too loud. Okay, justify why being too loud is equivalent to being a Peeping Tom. and Because, well, I had Peeping Tom higher, so I'm absolutely not ranking it above that. Let's be clear. Because it's just it's just jarring, you know? i mean, ah we're talking specifically party or anywhere, because if you're talking about...
00:41:55
Speaker
you know, at school. Well, it's a party foul, I guess, but I guess it's kind of more Trixie and Trixie and Heather are so loud. but People are trying to study. People are trying to just have a normal conversation a party. It doesn't all have to be screaming. Look at me. Look at me. Someone's trying to study. let's listen to the new. Um,
00:42:14
Speaker
you know, top 40 hit on our FM radios and all that stuff. So loud. And i think Nate has actually talked himself into being the only one who lost a point on this saying it's to to study at a party. And that's the biggest problem. Well, oh I didn't know. Okay. Not studying at a party, but people want to have conversations. People want to, you know, it's not all about you each took a point. Yeah.
00:42:37
Speaker
Number four. Ready? Yeah. One, two, three. Spirit board. Double dipping. Come on. Okay, so only Chad takes one. Chad. What? Chad, using a spirit board, which of the less the two you have left?
00:42:57
Speaker
What? Which which i have left for the last two? Yeah. i have Explain why using a spirit board is worse than both of those. Well, because the other two are just fun experiences. And I feel like a spirit board can go in so many ways. You could just raise raise spirits from the dead, and they could be sad spirits. They could be angry ones. They're not all happy ones, like in Hasper. They could be up just...
00:43:28
Speaker
Very angry ones, and that's scary. Well, there you go! See? for You're answering your own question. Okay. Well, no, Chad, you still take one.
00:43:40
Speaker
Number five. One, two, three. Too loud. loud Spirit board. Oh, so then Janet takes one for fusing a spirit board.
00:43:53
Speaker
Alfie, you managed to thread the needle of popularity for once. And and super weird new experience. And then the last one. One, two, three. Seven minutes in heaven. separate Ouija board. and then Well, there it is. Of course, Alfie would find you to play seven minutes in heaven. It is worse.
00:44:13
Speaker
I put seven minutes in heaven at three. Not the first time that everyone at the party has been voting for seven minutes in a heaven while Alfie's playing a board game. Boom! That's true.
00:44:25
Speaker
Zing all you like, but I do believe that I have all four metro bus stations. ah So really quickly, how many points did each of you take?
00:44:39
Speaker
Three. three Four. Oh, Alfie took four? Three. I only got two right with two people. You guys ah type in this information, ah and the chaperone is clearly struggling.
00:44:51
Speaker
ah That was eight total inaccuracies between the three of you. You guys didn't unite on a single... you ah Watch as the chaperone is trying to process all of these morality questions and weighing what's right and wrong. As it's dealing with all of the variable answers that you guys provided, it's swinging its arms out wide. Little electrical pulses are releasing from you. You take a blast to your chest, representing the four points of damage or whatever it
Disabling the Chaperone and Escape
00:45:22
Speaker
is. You're going to feel that tomorrow during the homecoming game.
00:45:25
Speaker
Oh, no. During all of the chaos... ah what What do you want to do? So Alfie is still um invisible to the chaperone because I need to be. Alfie is going to try to duck under, you know, the flailing arms. He's going to sneak into the bathroom where the water is flowing out and the evil fish are. Okay. Alfie recognizes what the fish is.
00:45:58
Speaker
It's called a snook, and it's attracted to light. Oh, my God. So Alfie would like to try to catch one of the fish in his hands.
00:46:11
Speaker
Okay. Take it back and put it in the chaperone's pants. I will let you make a... God, what kind of check is it to grab a fish from a bathtub?
00:46:24
Speaker
See, sleight of hand is in D&D, but I don't have that. Let's make it a flight roll of five. flight roll of five. It's a fit it's like a fish in a tub. feel like it's grabbable.
00:46:37
Speaker
Seven. You two. hear Chad and Janet. While Alfie has snuck away, what is the thing that you two are still arguing about?
00:46:49
Speaker
Chad. Yeah. the thing with the thing with The thing with eating a dip at a party ah is everyone knows it's going to be disgusting. I'm really sorry for what happened to John the Apostle, but...
00:47:00
Speaker
It's kind of on him. Janet. There's 10 broken up soggy chips in ah in a French onion scoop and he's going to eat that and go play a game tomorrow? You don't understand what he went through? He had to be out for three weeks?
00:47:17
Speaker
We couldn't see Johnny for three whole weeks, Janet. i Well, yeah. No, I know. But you're comparing that to like... People creep people looking in the windows and like creeping on women and stuff. You don't know what it's like, Chad. Guys are gross. Well, OK, hold up a second, because it could have been it could have been a lovely representative of of a church.
00:47:44
Speaker
It could have been it could have been a producer looking for some new casting for their show. You see? It could have been positive.
00:47:56
Speaker
It could have been someone good, like Meatball. i don't I don't think peeping Tom really does actually have any positive connotation. Tom is a great name. I think I'm going to agree with her on this one, buddy. Alfie, you sneak up and you slide this fish into the chaperone's pants. Christ, this game.
00:48:15
Speaker
Yes. Well, it's ah it's a predatory fish, so I imagine it's going to see all the electronic beeps and boops, and it's going to start ah biting, and also ah be a little bit wet.
00:48:29
Speaker
um And... Really, I just wanted to put a fish down the chaperone's pants. Alfie, continuing your tradition of soaking yourself, um you yeah you do drop this fish into the chaperone's pants. And the robot... Great. ah The chaperone is starting to flail about.
00:48:48
Speaker
I need all three of you to make a grit roll of eight. All right. or Nine. My grit is a D8, so no. I rolled a two. Oh, that's a one.
00:49:05
Speaker
Womp womp. As the chaperone is wheeling about and trying to get the fish or whatever out of the back of its pants in a very Looney Tunes-esque way, both of its arms whip about and hit Chad and Janet.
00:49:18
Speaker
ah Neither of you are going to really be able to help anyone out of the house cra um in this moment. um Your hands are are injured. Why? Alfie.
00:49:30
Speaker
You manage to nimbly dodge this hand as it goes away, and you have a moment in this clarity. What are your orders to everyone? Everyone get the hell out of the house right now.
00:49:40
Speaker
Right now. we got to Can we, can I, is he blocking the doorway? No, he's more just like whipping around in in Jackie Swinches' want to. Why is his skin so sticky?
00:49:54
Speaker
I want to herd everyone out of the room. If I accidentally leave Johnny Mellons behind, I'm not too worried about Johnny Mellon kind of instinctively drunk stumbles his way out.
00:50:08
Speaker
Heather McGregor is on the ground. Do you want to try to lift her up? Yeah, is she babbling? Is she cogent? She's currently unconscious. She is unconscious. Oh, crap.
00:50:19
Speaker
Then, yeah, I'm going to try to hero carry her out. You're going to need to make a brawn roll of ah three. Don't fail me now, D4. It failed me now, that's a one. Heather is there on the ground. I will let... My D6. I think I do still have my D6. Oh my God, I'm gonna use my D6.
00:50:39
Speaker
four uh at first when Alfie tries he he tries to carry her like a like a baby but he is he's actually shorter than uh Heather McGregor is so it's it's a real weird thing he finally is able to flop her on to shoulder and fireman carry her and I think her She's just real floppy and dangly. I think her hair is so long that it's kind of trailing on the floor as I walk out with her. Janet, you and Chad are able to sort of stabilize her at least. You've been definitely feeling the pains. Maybe it doesn't maybe broken something? It's hard to tell.
00:51:20
Speaker
You guys, as you're making way down the stairs, you look and you see Jackie Swunch is still stuck in the room. The electrical system is still up and she's trapped there.
00:51:32
Speaker
Crap. My gosh. I'm going to shout out to Jackie. can Can I shout out Jackie? Is that it? Yeah, you're on the stairs. you're on that You're not far away. Jackie, come on. Is there any way for you to get... is there any way for you to turn that thing off? it's It's coded to keep me in here. I'm not able to leave.
00:51:47
Speaker
Wait, only he can let you out. Yeah. He's the one who did it. Can you can you like climb out the window? That's what that's what ah I heard some kids do when their parents don't let them leave the house.
00:51:59
Speaker
great idea Janet that's a great question suggestion actually let's roll a die and see if he blocked
Reflection and Resolution
00:52:07
Speaker
the window the window ah is available Jackie Swans goes to the window and pushes up against it and eventually cracks the window but it's a pretty long drop to get down It's okay.
00:52:19
Speaker
Jackie, do you have some blankets? Yeah, you have... I'm looking at your bed. You have blankets on it. Some sheets. Give me all those sheets. Get them to me. Guys, it's gonna... There's a timer literally going down. She's just grabbing things and throwing it down the staircase to you. It's okay.
00:52:35
Speaker
Okay, great. Thank you. um I'm going to take Meatball, run outside, and extend the sheet like firefighter style outside the window to catch her. Great.
00:52:48
Speaker
And on my on my way out, I'm going to grab a couple couch cushions and throw them under because I have no faith in this boneheaded plan here. You guys run down, you hear her yelling, ah and we're going to have you guys make a ah flight roll of four, just to make sure you can get this set up in time.
00:53:07
Speaker
Each of you, Janet and Chad. Oh, let's go. Ten. Oh, wait, that's an explosion. Thirteen. That's a nine. she Eventually, you see this thing, and almost like like a moment from like a very intense action movie, she jumps out of the window, and the room bursts in a big explosion. Electrical energy crackling out in that very 90s CGI style where everything had that like blue lightning effect.
00:53:33
Speaker
And she lands on the thing. she You guys hold that blanket taut. that She doesn't hurt. You guys look up and the house begins to fold in upon itself. Crunching inwards. You hear the snapping of wood and plywood um and in the foundation crackling upon. almost like this the house just sort of folding in and dissolving and eventually bursts. And there's only the remains of what was eventually the floor plan of where the basement would have existed.
00:53:58
Speaker
And Jackie is sitting there with you guys in front of her home. so jackie i have a question but you can go ahead i'll see you like her more well i don't we don't have to get into that it's actually complicated and i've got a lot of forwilling emotions i just wanted just i just wanted to congratulate jackie on um having her first party ah yeah well done jackie this was a blast for everyone um Is now a good time to bring up that um I left my house keys inside. They fell out of my pocket when we went down to the basement.
00:54:39
Speaker
Is there any way of me getting those back? No. Okay. We're not going back in there with that thing. Okay. The house just exploded. me like even I know.
00:54:49
Speaker
That's why I was asking Jackie and not Janet. that Well, all right. All right. I'm i'm not trying to not trying to be a bully. I'm just saying, you know, I know your dad has to print you a new key at least once a week. So just tell him you lost him again. Yeah, that's true. i do have my keys made out of paper. And that's how he prints the map for me.
00:55:13
Speaker
Oh, wait, no. Other keys are printed too, huh?
00:55:19
Speaker
Are they? Yeah. Are keys printed? Those are metal keys. But is that the verb that goes with making a key? Is it printing? Did I say print? Because I probably meant copy. meant copy. But no, copies still take the other...
00:55:35
Speaker
I still have Heather on my shoulder and listen, I don't want to mention any girl's weights anymore again, but I am also not fully fully built for this. Is it okay if I put her down on the cushions?
00:55:46
Speaker
Is she okay? Alfie, you're a football player. Wait. You're good. yeah ah Do we need to take her to a hospital right now? I'm a little worried. her Her card orb thing started to, you know, dissolve, and now she's unconscious. So, like, what does that mean? you guys are talking and discussing this, and then eventually you hear ah what sounds to be like a soft crying. And you look over, and you see Jackie Swunch is sort of sitting there with her legs in the the the the chasm where her home kind of was, softly crying to herself.
00:56:24
Speaker
And she looks back and just, just go. just Just go, you guys. You know, Jackie, i've tried to have a sleepover party when I was in middle school. And I invited eight girls.
00:56:37
Speaker
And only two of them showed up. And the other five girls had a sleepover without me. So I know what it's like to have a bad party. And it's not the end of the world.
00:56:47
Speaker
It's just part of being a girl, part of growing up. You know, she looks at you and she wipes away the tears in her eyes and she sits there for a moment. She goes, he hasn't reached out to me since I freed him.
00:57:02
Speaker
Your dad? Let him go, and he sent me away. Oh, man. Alfie knows exactly what that's like. Not exactly what that's like, but he's got a pretty terrible father. He's going to unceremoniously drop Heather McGregor on the ground and go over to Jackie and put his hand on her shoulder.
00:57:22
Speaker
um She rests her head on your hand. um I don't want to be insensitive in this moment because... Jackie, you are being very honest.
00:57:34
Speaker
But I think this would be a good time to remind every everyone that you are also... Aren't you like over 3,000 years old? This can't be the first time you're feeling disappointment, right?
00:57:50
Speaker
I just thought... It's really hard to be sincere when Chad talks to you.
00:57:59
Speaker
You know, i I would assume after this long, I would be okay with him being disappointed in me. And I guess you just never get used to it.
00:58:11
Speaker
Okay. So the feeling never goes away. It's good to know. I'm sorry, Jackie. Also, Chad, I should let you know. i stole your house keys. And she reaches into her pocket and gives you your keys back.
00:58:27
Speaker
Jackie, you're the best. Thank you. My dad's not going to be mad at me anymore.
Conclusion and Future Plans
00:58:40
Speaker
I think I knew you in a bad way.
00:58:48
Speaker
That was part one of our two-part finale. Thank you to the Rebel Kicks for that fantastic intro and outro song that we've been using this whole season. They just released a new single on Spotify. You should give it a listen and a review.
00:59:01
Speaker
As always, I want to thank you for listening to the series as well. If you have any thoughts, theories, beliefs, prayers, hop into our Discord. Give us some feedback. It's always really appreciated. We'll be doing a talkback or after school special later this year at some point. So if you have any questions you want answered, hopefully one of my players can give it to you.
00:59:19
Speaker
And at this point in time, I'd like to like to announce our next season is going to be using the triangle agency system. I'm very excited to test that out. I have a lot of expectations and optimisms. As always, please leave a review on whatever listening cy service you're tuning in from and force someone to you love to listen to it during the holiday season. I'm your game master, Paul Emmerich.
00:59:39
Speaker
Thank you very much.