Right Clique

== Background ==
Right Clique is a D&D 5th ed. RPG show that debuted during the February 24, 2018 Special Fundraiser as a one-off. 
It returned as a 4-episode mini-series between GeekSpaceTV's season 2 and season 3 in EAT PREY KILL's slot, only 2 hours earlier (5PM instead of 7 PM). 
Heads-up from Anna before the show's premiere: I'll be honest though, a couple of the cast members will each be out for one episode each, so it may be a bit cast-light a couple of days.Source: Discord. 
== Cast ==
=== GM ===
Lauren
=== Heroes ===
[[File:RClique_GroupPortrait_Voidsmoker.jpg|thumb|392x392px|Picture posted on twitter by Voidsmoker]]Megan Connell, as Lyra Star, the Aasamar school of Glamor bard. She has rose pink hair and loves putting on a show :)Source: this tweet.. Her instrument is a guitar. Quote: we definitely need extra panties.
Cheryl Platz, as Anora Quid, the halfling Shadow monk with extra underwear, who operates under the radar—and under the tableQuoted from this tweet.. Managed groom extraction while the rest of the group pulled off guest distraction. She's more of the acrobat of the group than a musician.Source: My memories and this tweet.
Pumpkinberry, as Tad the Bloody. This 5'4" human barbarian with a confusing weird smile plays her drumsticks on her way-too large armor when she's not enraged killing foes.Source: this tweet.
Jessica Merizan, as Tipsy (only in ep 0).
Friskk, as Lulu, the very fierce-looking black Dragonborn wizard with all the scales in all the right places and a tail that curls up. Lulu drinks chardoclayVery high-quality mud., wears bright red lipstick and bright blue eyeshadow, spits acidThus ruining her clothes fast, and endangering people around her when she sneezes. and strangles foes with underwearAt least, she believes it's the underwear that does the trick. Her chokehold might help a lot.. Because, why use spells? Lulu plays the cowbell.See .
Lulu's magic missiles look like lipsticks. Friskk also mentioned in chat that bardonce knowles is my long time nemesis in almost every campaign.See .
=== Secret weapons ===
The Bag of Spare UndiesSee , 1:31:00 in, right before the break: an infinite supply of panties. As Lyra suggests, second after they have smacked a guard in the face with a piece of underwear: I think we did a bag of holding that's nothing but panties, the GM gives the group an unlimited supply of underwear. They're all illusions and they are really crappy.
Bag of Holding of Glitter. Everywhere. All the time. It is a portal toward the Elemental Plane of GlitterAs suggested by @pumpikin1. See .
=== Levels ===
By the start of episode 1, the characters have reached level 3.
They were level 4 by the end, I am not 100% sure when I leveled them. I think it was between 2 and 3.Source: Lauren, on Discord.
== NPCs ==
Any Key is a rival bandSee .. Its 3 female members are: 
* an elf, who is the drummer;
* a human bard, the flutist;
* a tiefling named Amelia, who plays a harp which loses strings and becomes dissonant after Tad drives her javelin into it.
Simon Cooper, a fairly burly 5' 4" human with broad shoulders; former cooper; former bassoon player who had to stop playing when he lost a finger; former mercenary; hired by Right Clique after failing to capture Ellaine and being captured himself, being briefly threatened with a drumstick, wooed by the band into pursuing his dreams and playing the bassoon again after they get Lulu back with his helpSee and .. He remains loyal to his new party until the end of the mission, manages to save his former comrades from Tad's frenzied rage and embarks on a ship with her. Note: on a scale from 1 to 20, Simon rates his strength, which is actually 16, a 22. 
BossmanSee . NftE: If I remember correctly, he had got a very guttural name in ., the leader of a band of goblins that was summarily if temporarily dislodged by Simon Cooper and his former clique. Likes shinies; likes having panties on his head even more, because it's cold out there in the caves, wants the bad people's heads; wants you to know that he won't tolerate dissent in his ranks and that it's hard to keep goblins in line. Also wants this much 🖐🖐 gold per person to help the Right Clique on their quest, and this much 🖐 more when they find a tunnel built by a huge worm or something, and the job starts looking real dangerous. Loses all of his posse of six in the line of work (AWOL: 2; Splatted: 1; Chomped on: 1; felled by a falling bulette: 2, the regretted Spin(ey) and SquigglySee .)Most of the information in this paragraph: See .. After he faces and survives all the perils of their mission, the Right Clique hire him as band manager with the promise that you take money from stupid humans.
== Mini goblin glossary ==
Annoying: Goblins with a lot of hit points are super annoying.~Lyra
Band manager: You take money from stupid humans so that we can perform.~Tad. Oh, that's so awesome.~Bossman. And you get all the panty hats you could ever want.~Tad.
Brave: Goblins.
Hit point: What's a hit point?~Bossman
Leadership (clip by yours truly): The trick is, when you're a goblin you just hold their heads under the water for a long time, and if they die, they're too weak. It's called leadership.~Bossman
Scared: Humans.
Smart: Goblins.
Stab: We like sneaking up on people when they are sleeping, they're really easy to stab.~A goblin
Stupid: Humans.
Useless: Humans.
23: the number of hit points Bossman had after multiple buffs from Lyra. That's a lot for a goblin.Comment from @Lysander_Gustav: That goblin is wider than they are tall. It's a mini-fridge
==List of Right Clique Episodes==
Num 	Title 	Air Date 	Summary 	Link
0Uploaded on Apr 12, 2018.	 	Feb 24, 2018 	A ragtag "band" of inexperienced adventures free a groom from a forced marriage, through a mix of discreet extraction and musicalDepending on your definition of music. They are beyond genres. Transcendence was the first album's name. distraction. A dead horse named Carl and #SpareUnderwearOr is it Sp'areUnderwear, Cheryl? were also involved.	YouTube
1 	No Take Backsies 	Apr 13, 2018 	After their amazing performance has gained them local fame and rabid fans. the group known as the Right Clique has stayed together. A black Dragonborn wizard named Lulu has replaced Tipsy. The group is approached by Ellaine, a cleric of Pelor who has information about the local a..hole baron she needs to get out of the city to the place where her sister lives, 10 horse-riding days aways. 
The group, including a new glittery performer known as Ellanis they purport to have met fifteen days prior, starts its journey by renting 4 horses and 1 pony for free from an enthralled M. HurtzLeaving the very bemused horsemonger holding a pair of panties. and escaping city guardsAfter failing to convinve theim with their explanations or their impromptu performance of a new song: No Take backsies. who have noticed both their black & silver banner with Right Clique Spring Tour Year 1 in glitter lettering and their borrowed rides.
After five days, they are attacked by dire wolves originally after a deer running for dear lifeAccidental pun. who'd settle for Tad's horse (Carl Jr.Thanks, chat.)'s meat instead. The wolves are dispatched.
Ellaine/Ellanis approaches Anora at their next stop: they are too slow, her papers need to arrive to their destination faster. The next morning, the group, already suspicious of Ellaine and Anora after their discreet conversation, finds out that Anora is goneIRL, Cheryl couldn't be there the following week..	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
2 	Battle of the Bands 	Apr 20, 2018 	Tad is unhappy with Ellanis and Anora, who's doing a Tipsy. Ellanis couldn't afford to wait until their dire wolves pelts were ready. Kuju just has mudlot.
The 3 performers of Any Key who are set to perform in their stead anger Tad enough that she bites off the sarcastic tiefling's noseCue the nose jokes: Nose problem, nobody nose.. The mayor-baker will let Right Clique perform the next night on a square. Then Lulu tricks the innkeeper, Gary, into canceling Any Key's performance.
The Any Key intrude into Right Clique's show, stealing their thunder with their own music and magical help.
A bloody Battle of the Bands starts, and damage is dealt to property that the Clique agreed in advance to pay for. The defiant Any Key have to flee the scene, ultimately over-spelled, over-javelined and over-glittered. Their flutist remains, enthralled. The performance resumes with the Right Clique's hit: No Take Backsies.
The following day, our heroes take their pelts and continue their renamed Blood and Glitter Tour.
The last night before they reach Ellaine's goal, a group of archers attacks them in their sleep. A large man grabs Ellaine, arrows fly. The guy is tripped, bitten and subdued by Tad. 
Ellaine is freed, but in the meantime Lulu has been sedatedWhich Friskk describes as a rather agreeable experience. She talks to a horse named Penelope van Schmeezie (spelling?). and kidnappedThis had been arranged in advance, because Friskk wouldn't be there for the next show..	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
3 	New friends, new entanglements	April 27, 2018 	Anora, safe in town after delivering Ellaine's papers, gets a call on the rockie talkie: Lulu was kidnapped. She's joining them.
Meanwhile, Tad threatens and Lyra woos the mercenary into turning against his comrades and joining them instead, because they have failed their mission already and won't get their money. 
They all return to the city, Ellaine still wary of their new friend; drop her off so that she can't be used as a bargaining chip; and acquire essentials such as healing potions and a bassoon for Simon. Simon then leads them to the cave where his coconspirators have their camps. 
Anora sneaks alone, finds a fork. They all enter and meet a band of seven goblins whose leader they convince to help them kill the baddies who stole their camp. To this end, shinies won't do: Right Clique will have to fork over living goblin wages of 15 gold per head and provide them with fancy, undearwear-y hats. 
Lyra's Locate Object helps them track, but not find, Lulu, until the group and its goblin of only 5 by then find themselves stopped by a chasm. They all climb down in various ways, with various degrees of success and damage to their pride or otherwise, and are soon engaged by two spiders. Initiative is rolled, a few rounds elapse, the spiders do their spider thing with poison, and Lulu's voice suddenly emerges from a web. 
To be continued and concluded in 2 weeks.	YouTube - Part 1 YouTube - Part 2
4 	Love by a Landshark 	May 11, 2018Friskk, who was recovering from surgery, could not be there.	Foreword: This recap is much longer than I anticipated. Even so, to do the episode justice, I'd have to just write every sentence down because every sentence is a gem.
Anora engages in a high-wire act on webbingPrompting @AXXimillian to wonder in chat: Cirque du Clique?Anora also mentioned doing the same thing on stage and hiring a spider if they could find one on the market. to save the drowsy Lulu from a spider, pulling out two of its legs to use them as drums, while the goblins cheer Anora, Anora and Tad has a new song: Anora, the Spider Queen.
Meanwhile Tad the Bloody Fabulous, the goblins and Simon finish dispatching an ettercap and its remaining pet spiders. Tad, after driving her javelin under the ettercap's chin mocks it, puppeteer-like: Hello, I'm a spider freak. After Simon gives it the coup de grâce, Tad decides to keep the ettercap-puppet on her javelin and Lyra, free from the web in ance which she was entangled, mockingly imitates it in a very convincing perform: Everything is fine, the nest is clear. 
Lyra flies back up, carrying Lulu—who's barely conscious and making animal noises—and sees rocks blocking the entry from which they came. Anora gathers three silk sacs from the 4 spiders.
Tad manages to climb, her javelin stuck in her oversized armor, and by the time she's up the ettercap's head-neck combo has started dislocating.
They decide to follow the free tunnel that should lead them to Simon's former companions, whom, he reminds them, they have promised to kill for their money. Tad convinces the really strong and brave warriors, the best of the best, the goblins, to go first and dragon-dance the ettercap with Anora nearby. But first they have a thirty-minute short rest during which Tad covers her puppet in glitterAnd thus the ettercape became a glittercap. NftE: I'm not proud that it took me the second watch to get this pun. and gives it a crown while Anora covers her hands in sticky webbing. Tad also covers the wolf's head she's wearing in glitter. Says Anora: We have never been more us than we are right now.
Lyra fashions a sled for Lulu, who's still delirious, out of a spider's carapace.
After a while they have to pass through a deep waterfall that creates a cliff on on their path, a great spot for a photoshoot. The goblin boss sees through Tad's trick to get him to go first, but Anora convinces him it will be safer to go first. Nobody dies, despite a close brush with death for the goblin boss, Lyra and Simon. The goblins are smart enough to use the puppet as a shield against the water but not smart enough to tie themselves in like the others.
While Anora, sneaking in front of the group, eventually stumbles on the four short-resting mercenaries they are after, Lyra prepares to repeat her ettercap performance, less convincingly this time: Dinner is served!
 It takes time (a bad roll) for Anora to notice the mercenaries but In my defense, it is very compelling to watch three goblins controlling an ettercap [...] There is a lot going on, it's a high-production-value situation. Why would I like down the hallway when that's right there? 
When all have regrouped, Tad takes back her puppet and Lyra casts Shatter on the still unsuspecting mercenaries. And then, while conveniently backlit, the Right Clique strike ... a pose and throw glitter: they make an entrance. Lyra focuses on the magic user rather than one of the two archers or the swordsman, and viciously mocks them: you've never seen an entrance like that and you never will again with little success. Tad, very intimidating with her rage and her webbed crown and the dead ettercapNot to mention the glitter., hits Lulu's kidnapper, the swordsman, with her pike. Anora and the goblins hit the archers. The fight goes on a little, until a landshark a.k.a. bulettea.k.a. chompy-mouther (Lyra, from Lauren's description). Right Clique is a city band, they are not familiar with these monsters. emerges from a smooth tunnel at the spot that Lyra's Shatter hit. It swallows Tad and Simon's opponent, covering Tad in his blood. Anora is upset: Dammit, it upstaged us. Tad attacks the bullet to retrieve its armor. Simon, encouraged by Tad, overcomes his fear. The goblin boss, goaded by Anora, climbs on top of the bulette where Anora follows him, aiming for the bulette's eye. Lyra accepts the mercenary druid's peace offer, after which the druid morphs into a dire wolf and tears into the bulette. Simon falls on his butt as the bulette leaps, takes a bunch of damage when the bullet slashes his leg and Tad says: I'm really attached to Simon. The two goblins that also fall are squished under the bulette's feet despite the two 5 HP buffs Tad gave them earlier. Simon, realizing that Tad is fighting for him, stands up and stabs. Anora punches the bulette through the eyeball, for the deceased Spiney and SquigglyTad has a new song potentially: Shark Punch., and reaches into its brain, elbow deep in its skullWhich prompted this comment by @vulpes484: open your hand in its brain...yet another puppet. The bulette collapses. The fight should be over, but Tad is still in a frenzy and goes after the druid, immediately followed by the remaining goblin and Anora. Tad takes damage from the mercenaries. Simon grabs Tad failing to stop her from killing his former comrades they had agreed to spare, but still looking her in the eye.
Anora throws glitter in a heart shape behind these two, there is still a disco orb rock on the ground, and one of the archers' arrows slow-motion flies through the heart for no reason. Lyra also adds background music. 
Still eye-locked with Simon, Tad takes in all the cues calms down and says to the blushing, mum Simon: I never thought anyone could calm that storm.
Battle over, no bad feelings, the Clique ride the body of the bulette out on Grease cast by Lulu, with some pushing.
Tad makes Bossman an offer he can't refuse and he follows them as band manager.
Finally, the band gets to perform in a festival where Bardonce gets the main stage. Ellaine finds that Lulu has ingested alcohol she cannot digest and won't perform which means Ellaine will be needed.
On the next day, the Right Clique are introduced onstage, Tad made a real drumset made of bulette scales, they play a song no one has ever heard before: Blood And Glitter, Lyra uses Silent Image to reenact her fight with the bulette, with lots of glitter, Anora interpretive dances her eye-punching complete with the glitter arc, Bossman and friends interpretive dance with the glittercap and at some point they transition into Love By A Landshark. It ends with a fountain of blood and glitter from the bottom of the stage as they hit the final note and strike a pose.	YouTube-Part 1 YouTube - Part 2
== Songs of Right Clique ==
Tad (to Lyra) : You don't have a spell that just like makes them start dancing?Anora: That's called music, that's called our music.See .
=== Episode 1 ===
No Take-Backsies (clip by LizaDeMorte)
=== Episode 2 ===
We are the Right Clique (clip by me)
==Notes==
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