Campaign 3, Episode 5: Psi Guys (The Mothership Saga)

**Psi Guys** is the fifth episode in campaign 3, and the fifth episode in The Mothership Saga.

The Blue Crew races to save Albin and Krugan from Mothership super soldiers! Calder turns psychic, Sol goes back to his roots, and Callie goes electric.

## Plot Synopsis

The Blue Crew race back to the Church of Moradin to save Krugan and Albin only to find the main chapel abandoned. In the belfry, however, Gifford and her C-Class squad are not only guarding the scene, but also reading Callie's diary. Sol busts the door down and attacks them with the help of Albin and Calder, but Callie freezes, too distraught to help. However, after a *Detect Thoughts* reveals that Gifford is scared of her, Callie *Fey Steps* on top of her and gets up in the mix, knocking them both prone and bringing more chaos to the brawl.

Eventually, the Duck Team triumphs, but the victory is dampened when Albin reveals some terrible news: Krugan was kidnapped by A-Class Knights and was dragged off to the Launchpad Academy to be interrogated by grumpy old Professor Lizer, the Dean of Psionics and Mothership Inquisitor. Albin casts *Nondetection* on the crew so they cannot be picked up on the psychic grid on campus, they convince a psionic laquidditch player named Pitcher to help them get into the psionic building. After knocking Pitcher out and stealing some flying laquidditch sticks, the crew (led by Calder) control the psychic staircases and make it the full seven floors to the top of the building (without facing any of the challenges laid out by the DM, much to his chagrin).

Once at the top, they rush down the hall to Lizer's office where they interrupt him while he is psychically interrogating and torturing Krugan. Lizer was joined by his "bunny bud" Claudius, who seems to be getting a sick thrill from the torture. They face each other down, a fight imminent.

## Quotes

* ""*My emotions are my power, they are not not inconvenient or embarrassing. I am the raw, unbridled power of seasonal change and flux. One day I will flower and everyone in the Feywild will eat their words! I am*," and get this, get this, she crossed out "*beautiful*" and then she erased it, I can see the eraser marks! She wrote "*pretty*" and then she erased that, then she crossed that out, and she tried to erase it but she couldn't get it all the way out, and then she wrote "*cute enough!*"" -Gifford, reading Callie's diary aloud to her squad in Callie's belfry apartment.

## Trivia

* The Blue Crew leveled up to level 6 at the beginning of this episode, introducing Murph's homebrew rule that when the crew levels up, they functionally get a long rest right away. The in-story explanation for this is that their manastones surge with power as they realize new abilities.

## Music and Sound Effects

* "Violin Variation" by Freqman at Freesound.org.
* "A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford.
* "Spooky Shafts" by Emily Axford.
* "Gunvar" by Emily Axford.
* "Gladeholm" by Emily Axford.
* "Angels & Devils" by Emily Axford.
* "The Mindflayer's Lair" by Emily Axford.
* "Alone" by Emily Axford.
* "The Vast Expanse" by Emily Axford.
* "Into the Planar Pool" by Emily Axford.

## External Links

* Headgum
* Spotify
* NADDPOD Subreddit Thread