Seattle in Chicago - Part One

Poster for the Live Show

> "*I just do that gay thing where I just start walking so that other people will leave to.*"
> ― Arson Nicki
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**Seattle in Chicago - Part One** is the twenty third episode of Queens of Adventure: Legends. It is a recording of a live show hosted at Mary's Attic in Chicago. In it, Bootie and the Hofish attend the Fall Faerie Festival.

## Summary

At the Fall Faerie Festival, the drag adventuring party Bootie and the Hofish perform a number. As they finish, Queen Titania greet them and ask them to perform a signature move.

Fraya Love orders her favorite drink: Vodka Red Bull. Arson Nicki claims she can speak in iambic pentameter. Butylene O'Kipple throws out one of her arcane vapors. An audience member knocks it back towards the stage where it breaks into a plume of smoke. Titania freezes it with her foot and says she will keep it for later. Fraya, meanwhile, barely manages to keep herself steady by resting on a nearby centaur.

Titania explains that every year the fae ask a group of mortals to entertain them and undertake a quest: To fetch the last of the Pumpkin Spice from the center of the Dark Woods. If they succeed, they will get a wish. If they fail, they will be turned to stone statues, and she shows off a gallery of failed adventurers.

A stone archway appears creating a portal to a Dark Woods. Arson *prestidigitations* a little music as she walks through the door. Titania warns them that Winter comes quickly as the portal closes behind them.

Arson crouches to try and listen for any threats, but sees only the grass, which Butylene takes a sample of. She recognizes it as a strain of weed that puts people to sleep.

Fraya hears snoring in the direction of the woods. Arson scuttles over runs into a direction post, with a sleeping sprite on top of it, covered in orange powder. As he wakes up, he calls to a second sprite, Whiskey, to join him.

The sprites admit to having recently visiting the pumpkin spice patch just past the hags. They suggest they could provide some interesting conversation to the hags to get passage.

Arson gets up and leaves while the others talk to the sprites and the others quickly follow her, Fraya hopping on her back.

They come to a clearing with at least ten passageways leading out. There is also a platform with three chests on that. Arson jiggles one. It is heavy, locked, but she can tell there is a scroll inside. Titania's voice tells them that they have a chance to acquire helpful items, but they should dally. Butylene investigates one of the chests and discovers it is not a mimic. She also hears noises across the clearing, and sees an active beehive with a gold key embedded, and a dog behind the tree trunk with a key on its collar. Sitting nearby is a pile of gold keys.

Fraya ignores this and spits into the lock of a different chest. She freezes it with *shape water* before smashing the lock open with the base of her trident. The chest pops open and inside she finds a map to the pumpkin patch.

Butylene approaches the beehive and loads her pipe of smoke monsters with some of the sleep weed she acquired. She smokes out the beehive, causing them to slowly drift off, and then takes the key. It opens another chest, finding a scroll of rope trick.

Arson approaches the dog and uses her tentacle baton as a dog toy, which the pooch loves. She pulls the key from his collar and uses it on the last chest. Inside is a scroll of polymorph she barely reads before moving on. Butylene stops to use some Bacon Spice to entice the dog while Fraya uses *tongues* to ask him to come along. The dog bounds ahead, following Arson who takes off down the path, as frost begins to cover the ground.

Up ahead they hear faint music and find a clearing full of cats. One rubs up against Arson. Fraya does a kick ball change and one of the cats mimics her. In the clearing is a large pit of sand (not kitty litter) with a wooden plank over it. A shabby tabby does a clumsy little dance across it to techno music, but the judges dislike it. One pulls a switch and the plank twists, dropping the cat into quicksand.

Arson is undeterred and heads for the runway. The three queens strut their stuff (to a song Butylene predicted). The dog also walks, to the cheers of the cats. The cat who danced with Fraya nods as Titania's voice says they've done their job of entertaining well.

They head down the path until it ands at a sheer cliff face. Nearby three hags stoop over a cauldron, who are excited to see fresh faces. They ask them to share some new reads in exchange for showing them a path through the cliff. One of them hands a pair of reading glasses (oversized novelty ones at the show) to the queens. The queens trade reads, to the delight of the hags, and realize that through the glasses they can see through illusions disguising a hole in the cliff.

One hag tries to take back the glasses, but the queens resist until she offers them a drink of their potion to gain the same size. Butylene takes a shot first and a third eye opens on her forehead. Fraya freezes some water from her flask of bountiful water into a cup and takes a drink. She takes a little damage but feels an ability to rhyme and increase her skills. Arson trots off through where she had seen the hole in the wall.

As they move through the mushroom lined cave, Butylene picks some and puts them into her pouch. They hear moaning up ahead.

###  Characters

#### Party

* Arson Nicki - drider warlock
* Butylene O'Kipple - tiefling alchemist
* Fraya Love - Water Genasi cleric

#### NPCs

* Queen Titania
* Displacer Beast
* Popper and Whiskey the Pixies
* Rufus the Dog

* Fae Animals
	+ Fae Cats

* Hags: Beatrice, Madame, and Lansbury

####  Live Show Roles

* DM Matt
* Dice Boy Diggory

 Episode Notes

### Lore

* At the annual Fall Faerie Festival, Queen Titania challenges teams of mortals to entertain her people by seeking out the last of the annual Pumpkin Spice.

### Inspiration Earned

* Arson - Pumpkin Spice - Spice Girls joke
* Butylene - Blumpkin Spice joke
* Arson - Using magic to play a dramatic chord
* Butylene - Suckers pun

###  Memorable Quotes

* "I just flew in and my lips are tired." - Fraya Love
* "That's my signature move: Vodka Red Bulls, you're welcome." - Fraya Love
* "I'm rocking this curse like the fashion that it is." - Arson Nicki
* "I like to blow shit up. Mostly constructs like gender and, what else, capitalism. I'd like to take that one down." - Butylene O'Kipple
* "I just threw one of my arcane vapors and I... threw it that way... I don't know." - Butylene O'Kipple
* "Some know us as Bootie and the Hofish. Others don't know us." - Butylene O'Kipple
* "I'm just gonna jump on her back." - "Oh did you?" - "I asked for consent earlier." - Fraya Love and Arson Nicki
* "Fraya and I are having a frenemy battle, but she doesn't know about it yet." - Arson Nicki
* "Ah yes, the old 'yunk' move." - Arson Nicki
* "Do dogs not have languages? I thought they had languages. We talk to each other. Oh yeah 'Woof'." - Fraya Love
* "I've been woofed at before many times, I think that counts" - "Only if you want to hear 'sup' over and over again." - Fraya Love and Butylene O'Kipple
* "Do they have human faces, cause I just can't with that." - Butylene O'Kipple
* "I did not come here for some dry kitty cat meow meow meows. If you want something more moist go down the hall to where the cats really are." - "Who was that directed to?" - "I have no clue." - Fraya Love and DM Matt
* "Fraya Love. Blue does not look good on you. It makes me want to dabadee-daba-die." - Arson Nicki
* "Butylene O'Kipple. I love your outfit but the only thing golden about you is the shower you're gonna take from your sugar daddy next week when you get back home!" - Arson Nicki
* "Fraya Love. You might be thirsty but it looks like you need a Fraya... shove." - "Aaaa. Wait, I don't get it." - "It's a sex reference." - Butylene O'Kipple and Fraya Love
* "We all want shots." - "Speak for yourself girl!" - Fraya Love and Arson Nicki

###  References

* Starbucks Pumpkin Spice flavor
* Red Bull
* Spice Girls
* Sprite Soda
* Lolipop Guild from Wizard of Oz
* Laura Mercier makeup
* Woof on Scruff
* "Have Fun Attacking the Castle" - Princess Bride
* Instagram
* CATS
* Liza Minelli Turns off a Lamp

###  Name That Tune

* "Bang Bang" - Nicki Minaj and Arianna Grande (opening lipsync)
* "Man, I Feel Like A Woman" - Shania Twain
* "Memories" - CATS (Techno version)
* "Hey Big Spender" (Techno version)
* "Blue" - Eifel 65

## Behind the Queens

* This live show was funded thanks to the second Kickstarter campaign, which brought the queens to Chicago to record a variety of special episodes. It was originally released as a Bonus Episode.
* This is the second of four appearances of the Fall Faerie Festival, in terms of recording. It was preceded by the Chicago Cast, and was succeeded by the Minneapolis Cast and Extra Life casts.
* While Fraya Love previously performed in the DragCon 2018 adventure, this is the first time the entire Seattle core cast has performed outside of Seattle.

* Arson Nicki has stated this is their favorite live show to date.
* In the mid-episode break, DM Matt announces Legends will be taking a break after the release of the second part of this live show releases on November 4th, 2020.

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**Hang Ten**: Part One -- Part Two
**Geekhaus Live**: Part One - Part Two
**Emerald Forest Adventure Con**: Part One - Part Two
**Children of the Cornball**: Part One - Part Two
**Seattle in Chicago**: **Part One** - Part Two