Dungeons & Drag Queens Pride Adventure

The cast during the Live Stream

**Dungeons & Drag Queens Pride Adventure** was a special live stream event hosted on Twitch. It was a fundraiser for the NAACP as part of ongoing Black Lives Matter and Pride month movements. In it, three queens help the town of Greenharbor overthrow an oppressive government.

## Synopsis

*Throughout the stream – viewers can make choices in polls to influence the game.*

The town of Greenharbor is known for bath salt mining and is ruled by Lord Silvercheeks from a fort on the hill where his Sheriff runs a prison. As evening falls, music plays in the Traveler’s Street Inn. Three drag performers dazzle the audience on the rickety stage. As their number ends, tavern owner Stormy, a human, takes the stage to thank them. She asks them to tell the audience who they are and to show off their moves.

Rock M. Sakura shows off a fireball twerk with *control flames*. She loses some control and some of the flames shoot towards the miners. Her wild magic surges causing her to lipsync to a song. Orcika raises her magic mallet hammer to lick it, but actually hits herself with it. Illusia pops her collar, calling her owl familiar as she casts *dancing lights* for the owl to fly through, but it smashes into a window.

Leaving the stage, the group heads to a booth. An orc wearing a leather binder approaches them and introduces himself as Conrad. He explains it is Old Man Harry, across the bar with an arm in a sling, just got out of the prison that night, and its his birthday. The queens are outraged to learn everybody in Greenharbor has been in the prison from time to time thanks to the Sheriff. Magic is outlawed in town. The bar allows it, but only because the Sherriff takes a bribe from time to time. The queens are thinking they want a fight and are considering a jailbreak.

Conrad says the bar is raising funds for Old Man Harry and they want the queens to distract him while they pass the hat. The queens approach him, and Harry thanks them for the show. He asks for them to sing a seductive birthday song, and the queens oblige. As Old Man Harry thanks them, Conrad approaches with the coins. The crowd applauds.

The tavern door slams open. Two knights, one tall in red and one short in blue, steps in. They are Lt Odious and Sir Vile, the Sheriff’s men. Stormy calls them over for their bribe. Rock M tries to cast subtle shade, and, failing, draws the knights attention. They draw crystaline weapons and bring in guards made entirely out of crystal.

The audience debates fighting, fleeing, or hiding. The queens want to be peacekeepers, but as a fight breaks out, they join in.

The guards close in wielding crystalline mallets. Orcika slinks behind the bar *stealthily* to appraise the room for an advantageous attack. Illusia dances and Rock M plays flute to distract the knights. This allows the group to get the first attack in on the guards alongside the villagers. Rock M fires a crossbow bolt from her flute, which shatters his crystal net. The villagers surge and the knights flee, shouting that they plan to come back with Sheriff Leer.

The villagers feel strong and capable as they have never fought back before. They think they should attack the fort. Orcika suggests they fortify the bar, but Stormy suggests they head into the mines to regroup before storming the fort. The villagers and queens agree and she opens a secret passage that leads underground.

*Intermission*

The group descends until they reach a large cavern
opening for a short rest where they hear a rumbling, growing louder. From the north comes a huge worm that fills the cave, with a maw full of crystal teeth and plated in crystal armor. RockM asks the miners for advice. One suggests scaring it off, another says it is hungry and that it eats polished salt crystal.

Rock M fires her crossbow at a hanging crystal. With a crit success it explodes crystal pieces down. More worms show up from other tunnels, purring happily as they come up to the villagers who feed them.

With their new friends, the group continues down the hall. Eventually a tall man in armor with horns steps out of a slice in the air to meet them. He introduces himself as Sheriff Leer. He says he will be lenient on the new queens, but not on the townsfolk. RockM admits to shattering one of the crystal guards, and the queens take turns reading the Sheriff for his terrible belt and suspenders combination.

Intimidated, the Sheriff steps back, as he threatens the crowd. He slices through the air, ripping open space and vanishes. From behind the group from the way they came, more crystal guards come towards them. Orcika realizes that the worms eat crystals and gets the villagers to throw crystals at the guards, which causes the worms to charge and eat them.

Conrad tells the group that he has been secretly digging a tunnel that leads under the fortress. He suggests they continue the energy of their movement and finish this fight against the Sheriff tonight. They have an option though: To go to the Sheriff’s workshop, to the prison, or to the manor of Lord Silvercheeks. The townspeople choose the prison, suggesting it as a distraction while the queens go after Silvercheeks. Rock M passes out stacked lashes to all of them to make them honorary drag performers. It inspires some of them to use some of their long hidden magic.

The queens head up to the manor, as Rock M worries she should have billed the villagers (Illusia slaps her).

In the manor there is a grand staircases with soap bubbles drifting down. They can see light from an ajar door, and inside a man singing to a rubber duck in the bath. Illusia casts a *minor illusion* piranha in the bath. As he thrashes, they do get to see the silver polish on his cheeks. Orcika follows up with a crossbow attack that gravely wounds him.

The Sheriff appears, stepping out of a slice in reality,
and thanks them for giving him the town by attacking Silvercheeks. As he approaches, crystal magic armor grows around him. Rock M casts *reduce/enlarge*. His constitution critically fails him and he shrinks until he is garden gnome sized.

Illusia casts *firebolt* as he stalks towards them. Orcika draws her mallet and swings shouting “Croq-Hey!”, which knocks the sheriff to the ground.

They stash him in a pickle jar and head outside as day breaks. The villagers meet them, having broken the prisoners out of the jail. Everyone is practicing their magic. A few run inside and secure the manor, and put Silvercheeks in a headlock.

Everyone thanks the queens, and praises themselves for banding together. With some suggestions from the queens, they rename the town: Rainbowharbor.

### Characters

#### Party

* Erika Klash (as Orcika) - half-orc fighter
* KaiKai Bee Michaels (as Illusia) - high elf wizard
* Rock M Sakura - half elf sorcerer

#### NPCs

* Stormy
* Conrad
* Old Man Harry
* Lt. Odious
* Sir Vile
* Sheriff Leer
* Lord Silvercheeks

#### Monsters/Enemies

* Crystal Guards
* Crystal Worms

#### Live-Show Roles

* The Townsfolk - the Live Stream Audience

## Episode Notes

### Lore

* The town of Greenharbor's Lord and Sheriff have banned the use of magic. Certain places, such as the Traveler's Road Tavern, are allowed to have some magic by paying bribes to the sheriff.

### Inspiration Earned

* Rock M - for a pun about miners
* KaiKai - for being aware of the live chat naming a crystal worm "Sigourney Wormer"
* Erika - for a Carol Channing reference
* Rock M - for giving lashes to the townsfolk
* Rock M - For singing her DnD Live fish song

### Memorable Quotes

* “I know how you broke this arm. Playing with your ding dong.” - Rock M. Sakura
* Yes, I have +3 to animal handling...but I also have a firebolt and could set him on fire..." - KaiKai Bee Michaels

## Behind the Queens

* This live stream was put together with help and support by EA games and was a fundraiser for the NAACP. By the time the stream ended, $2506.90 was raised.
* In this adventure, two of the queens chose new names for their characters. Although both names are used interchangeably and the character sheets were based on their previous Queens of Adventure characters, the chosen names are used here.
* Despite first joining the cast in July 2018, this is most fans first time seeing Rock M Sakura's. Her first live show couldn't be recorded, her first planned live stream appearance and second live show were cancelled. It remains to be seen if this live stream will be released to the podcast.
* Despite the three queens all being part of the Pastel Gore drag family, and all being in Queens of Adventure shows in the past, this was their first time playing D&D together. Erika mentioned after the stream this was their first time performing together since Erika moved back to New York City.

You can watch the full stream online here: