Season 2, Episode 26: The Staircase

*The following article contains spoilers for Season 2. Please listen to the season in its entirety or be warned!*

Template:Infobox episode**The Staircase** is the 26th episode of season 2 of *Dungeons and Daddies*.

## Description

*The teens, sans Scary, regroup after the stunning betrayal.*

## Introduction

Erica Drippins introduces the audience to her in-universe true crime podcast, To Live and Die in San Die-mas, as she covers the murder of Pepperoni Tony. As she interviews people it is revealed that everyone at their high school knows that Scary is responsible for his murder, but because the mayor is still on the loose the police are too busy to investigate or arrest anyone. The interviews end with Pepperoni Tony's daughter, Margarita Pizza, swearing vengeance on Scary.

## Rad Facts

Taylor Swift (Freddie Wong): Taylor considers Scary's actions in the last episode as his #1 worst anime betrayal, beating his previous worst anime betrayal, Lotso the Bear's betrayal in Toy Sutori 4.

Lincoln Li-Wilson (Matt Arnold): Lincoln has had grab bars installed in his shower to keep him from falling down while he is practicing his soccer kicks.

Normal Oak (Will Campos): In the future when Normal is in his mid-20s, he gets into very old, vintage menswear, like double-breasted suits.

Scary Marlowe (Beth May): During the two months the teens spent watching anime with Pepperoni Tony, Scary wrote all the lyrics to her bands upcoming album, though she has not recorded the album yet. Bonus fact: she has no regrets about Pepperoni Tony.

Dungeon Master (Anthony Burch): Because Anthony has donated a kidney before, he will be receiving an organ donation themed dice set from Donate Life America.

## Plot Summary

### The Aftermath

The morning after the fateful dinner party Taylor, Normal, Link, Hermie and Mae Hailes are at the D.A.D.D.I.E.S HQ reviewing the security footage of the floor where the door that had kept the dads and Willy trapped together for the past two months was opened.

*Grant and Willy, being the only ones able to move, left the room. Grant tried to keep Willy contained, the two fought and Willy managed to shove him back in. Hermie was still by the door reciting riddles at that point. Willy made him grab a magical padlock, but did not hurt him. Hermie runs away. Willy left and later came back with Scary to loot some magic items, including one or more mech suits. Scary spray painted the camera.*

In the present Mae Hailes opens the padlock, using a spellbook she found. Grant is still the only one inside able to move; Mae goes to find something to free them. Link from this point on does not talk and only communicates in gestures and written word.

Normal accidentally gives Grant a panic attack. Grant and Link silently panic pace around the room together.

Taylor and Normal talk about the events of the previous evening. While Taylor sees Scary’s betrayal as final, Normal still believes they need to get through to her. Normal fails to convince Taylor that anime is not real life. Link throws in written messages, wanting them to stop talking about Scary and focus on getting to the second anchor. Normal restates that he does not want to give up on Scary, as he does not want to give up on their dads or any of them.

The dads are released and try to take over command. They argue and the teens decide to take charge themselves. While Taylor makes a scene, Normal kicks over a note to Link, but Lark manages to intercept it. Normal shouts for them to get the amplifier, which is on another floor.

### The Chase (Combat)

Lark and Sparrow block the two stairways leading out from the floor they are on. Grant restrains Link.

Normal uses the whistle of command, causing Lark to abandon his position to run laps. Terry Jr. follows Normal when he runs for the door to the now free stair case.

Link hands Grant a note threatening to never talk to him again. Grant releases him and spends the rest of the combat trying to convince the other dads to just talk it out with the kids. Link follows Normal to the stairs.

Taylor picks up a handful of BBs he dropped on the floor earlier and runs for the stairs as well, where he keeps dropping them. Hermie acknowledges his will-they-won’t-they thing with Normal and joins them.

Link runs by Terry Jr. and kicks his feet out from under him, sending him falling backwards, past Taylor and Hermie, all the way to the bottom of the stairs.

Taylor and Hermie split off into the whale room, on a floor above the one that has the amplifier on it.

Sparrow sprints up the stairs.

Normal gets into the room holding the amplifier, with Sparrow behind him blocking the exit back to the stairs. He tries to use the amplifier to jump realms, having forgotten that that is not how that works, so he instead grabs it to take it with him.

Terry, still at the bottom of the stairs, manages to get up.

Link sneaks up on Sparrow and ties his shoelaces together. Sparrow tries to turn and falls on the ground, clearing the exit for Normal with the amplifier.

Taylor cracks the glass of the whale tank with a ninja rock. Hermie throws a chair that bounces off and hits him in the head.

The spell on Lark finally breaks and he chases after Taylor and Hermie.

Normal and Link grab a double-sided, double cheeked up poster of Ron and try to slide down the stair case on top of it. It rips immediately.

Taylor, hearing Lark running towards the room, tosses the remaining BBs onto the floor. Lark runs in, slips and falls into the cracked glass head first, shattering it and releasing the water inside. Taylor and Hermie get out ahead of the flood wave and run up towards the exit.

Normal and Link get to the elevator and press the call button. Unbeknownst to the teens, the HQ elevator had been tampered with by Glenn Close to get faster with repeated button presses.

Terry, as the only dad to dodge the flood, catches up with Normal and Link. When the elevator arrives, Normal and Link manage get in without Terry. The doors snap close like the maws of a beast and it shoots upwards to the lobby, where they join back up with Taylor and Hermie.

### Escape

The four teens make it out with the amplifier. Link talks for the first time that day, revealing that his voice dropped and he had been too embarrassed to talk.

When Normal, Link, Hermie and Taylor leave the D.A.D.D.I.E.S HQ, they are jumped by Willy and Scary holding a knife and a net respectively. He proclaims that they are going to hell and cuts off Taylor’s head.

## Trivia

* The item of the week is the Whistle of Command.