Episode 3 - Freeze Frame

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 <title source="title"><default>*Cold Open*</default></title>

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 <label>Season</label><default>*1*</default>
<label>Episode</label><default>*1*</default>
<label>Director</label><default>*Adam Rady*</default>
<label>Writer</label><default>*James Rodehaver*</default>
<label>Producer</label><default>*James Rodehaver, Adam Rady, Jared Hoy*</default>
<label>Starring</label><default>*Diana Restrepo, Ben Burch, Eric Radic, Ashley Seal, Adam Rady & James Rodehaver*</default>
<label>Guest Starring</label><default> </default>
<label>Runtime</label><default>*2:26:30*</default>
<label>VOD</label><default>*Season 01 Episode 01*</default>
<label>Website</label><default>*https://www.twitch.tv/datdragonshow*</default>
<label>First Aired</label><default>*January 26, 2018*</default>
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### **Opening Text**

*"Hi there...Well, this is a little awkward...We still don't have a new intro. But...I promise we're working on it. We're just a little busy...Keep imagining Krag yelling...Quigley charging..Alex stabbing...Leera in #Leeraland...And Markus doing...whatever. This is where the music builds...Last episode I missed the timing...Bu, not this time...This is Episode 3...Of...Krap, I missed the timing again. Dragons and Things.*

### **When Last We Met**

*"Your escape from the mountains was cut short by a terrible snow storm that left you all trapped in an ancient ruined longhouse. For those of you with little patience, this was a waking nightmare more intense than most of the deadly battles you’d so recently fought. For others of you, it was a chance to slow down and take a much needed rest. But that would not last, when a hidden trap door in the basement of the longhouse popped open under mysterious circumstances, revealing an underground system of tunnels.*

*Alex* *and Krag would not hear of staying in the safety of the Longhouse, and so you all descended into the tunnels and began a long journey in the dark. You encountered a dangerous abomination that nearly killed Sir Quigley, and found what may perhaps be a new friend in a talking skull named Ned who really just wants to find peace after a long stretch in the dark.*

*The tunnels continued on, until you came to a horrid chamber filled with corpses frozen solid in a wall of ice. Alex noticed one in particular, and stepped closer to stare into her own dead face, frozen for eternity like a grizzly trophy, and before she could tear her eyes away from the sight, a voice called out to her.*

*You all saw Alex’s reaction as she whirled around to face an enemy no one could see, and then, walking out from a darkened hallway, you all saw an old crone, twisted and blackened by frostbite, leaning on a staff made of black ice.*

*(Scripted but never said: Whoever she is, and whatever she wants, there is no doubt that you are in grave peril. This frost covered hag lets out a gleeful cackle, and raises her arms to the ceiling, swaying and chanting as the room fills with the echoes of her horrible song.*

*It is a fight for your lives. What do you do?)*

*(Syrinscape laughter begins) And she sounds just like that. That's Syrinscape guys.*

Krag*: She sounds young.*

*Jim: Well you know hags they look old, but they have a very youthful, evil laughter.*

Markus*: Their fires are a little more vibrant than others.*

*Jim: Their fires are not quite as limp as other peoples fires. We had rolled initiative. We were acting in initiative order.*

Quigley*: Yes we were.*

*Jim: And I still have the appropriate initiatives. Put them up there.*

*Alex: I had gotten a twelve.*

*Jim: Yeah, you were high up there. We had gone through the first couple of turns in the initiative order.*

Markus*: No. I do not think we acted at all yet.*

*Jim: No. You hadn't yet. We went though Alex, we went through Quigley, we went through Leera's. The hag stepped into view and that was where I called it quits. Just before she speaks.*

*Polarna: You've come back, little puppet. You've come back. Don't you remember what happened the last time you were here?*

Krag*: We've been waiting too long.*

Markus*: Alex, what happened the last time you were here?*

*Alex: I don't know. Let's to go comments first, shall we?"*

### **Episode Description**

#### **Prizes**

Jim read prizes as Ned (The Head).

* Open Gaming Store - Halls of The Mountain King - Adventure Path
* Syrinscape - $20 Gift Card

### **Trivia**

* This marks the first time that Jim did not end his introduction with the question, "What do you do?"