Episode 228 - The Spire Place

## Intro

**Episode description:**
n/a

**Opening Quote:**
Matt (singing): Fuck this shit, I'm out.

**Player introduction:**
Lauren: Hello and welcome to another episode of the tabletop champions! I'm Lauren your dungeon master and with me tonight we have Matt who plays Fanel...

Matt: Uhh, I looked up my family tree, and I found out I was the sap.

Lauren: Boooooo Sean who plays Abutton...

Sean: Uh, quite frankly garbage.

Lauren: Kyle who plays Irpaks...

Kyle: Tabletop Champions, where we're more tangent than show.

Lauren: Stephanie who plays Raquel...

Stephanie (in Raquel's voice): Quite frankly garbage dahling.

Lauren: And Ben who plays Throden.

Ben: What do you call a hyper-intelligent wizard who plans heists? A criminal castermind.

Matt: Booooo. Also uh. Uh, Lauren? You just booed at Rodney Dangerfield.

Lauren: Huh?

Stephanie: I support her in that.

Lauren: Thank you. I - you know, I'll take any and all support that I can get these days.

Kyle: He's dead, don't worry about it.

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with them hearing screeching down a tunnel. Abutton tries to stealth down the tunnel and finds a big red glowing orb surrounded by smaller red glowing orbs. Irpaks casts *Light* on a rock and throws it down the tunnel, revealing the orbs to be a skeletal beholder. It is stabbed and killed from behind by Laura-Leena, who brings news. She says she came with the army, which defeated its enemies when they stopped fighting. Markus got Aramel, Skrag, and D'Nias out of the tower before it collapsed. Laura-Leena came looking for survivors. The sun is out now, and she invites the party back to the camp. Laura-Leena is introduced to Abutton, who ships her and Fanel very enthusiastically. They go through the tunnel into the sunlight and see the battlefield covered in the corpses of Kri'Zakth's army. Laura-Leena says they took their own lives as soon as the tower fell. Throden sees some lizardfolk among the dead. Abutton cuts an arm off a corpse for Throden to eat.

They get to the army camp, and Irpaks leaves a *dragonfly* symbol on a tree. Abutton gathers vegetarian food. Fanel helps with the wounded. Laura-Leena tells Raquel that her parents are in a deep sleep and can't be woken. Raquel tells Laura-Leena an abridged version of the events at the tower. Abutton finds an open tent and starts cooking the lizardfolk arm in soup, and a vegetarian meal for Fanel, driving off the rightful occupants of the tent. A soldier slips a note in Irpaks' pocket from **his changeling son**, who is in the guise of a soldier with a red armband.

Raquel touches up her makeup and goes to see Aramel. He tells her he went to find D'Nias and Skrag after they disappeared, and that's when he was captured by the Rakshasa. When he mentions seeing the artifacts Raquel found for him, she admits to spending the last ten years finding them for him. He asks if it's a confession of love, and she says she's confused, so they put a pin in it and get drunk.

Throden helps Abutton cook. Later in the night, Irpaks goes out of sight and becomes a tall, slender, female elf. He meets up with the soldier outside camp and catches them up. They talk a little about the artifact, and then the soldier stabs him in the back, turning out to be the Rakshasa, rather than his son. He battles it briefly, possibly setting the woods on fire, but is outmatched and flees as an eagle.

## Memorable Quotes

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## Trivia

New Abutton Phrases:

* Life is a very ~~very~~ fragile thing. — Raquel227 -> Life is a very fragile thing.
* I'm glad to see someone on our side. — Fanel227
* Smart bird. — Irpaks227
* Fondness of your physique. — Raquel227
* I completely understand, my dear. — Raquel227
* Thank you.
* Dahling I'm trying to show you. — Raquel227
* You might ~~as well~~ enjoy it. — Raquel227
* I suppose. — Fanel227
* I was planning on eating this later. — Throden227
* [I'm] having soup later. — Throden227
* These are nutritious. — Throden