Episode 252 - Once in a Blue Moon

## Intro

**Episode description:**
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**Opening Quote:**
**Sean *(slightly muffled)***: I got a pringle in my mouth.

**Player introduction:**
**Sean**: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tabletop Champions podcast, I'm Sean your dungeon master and - \*crinkling noise\* Once you pop you can't stop.
**Matt**: Oh my god.
**Sean**: Tonight I have Stephanie who plays Kuviana...
**Stephanie**: Oh -
**Sean**: I got pringles.
**Kyle**: We know. I think the world knows.
**Sean *(mouth full)***: Lauren who plays Ophelia...
**Lauren**: \*seltzer can opening\* Grip it and rip it!
**Sean**: Matt who plays Wrath...
**Matt**: Fuck. I don't know if I should do this now. I was told I should do Warhammer 40k quotes now.
**Sean**: Welp, you missed your chance. Ben who plays Balinor.
**Ben *(in Balinor's voice)***: Hello.
**Sean**: And Kyle who plays Barry Dingle.
**Kyle**: Grip it and rip it.

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with Timmy Twinkletoes reviving the people in his hideout. Balinor and Wrath hear chains and an undulating hum through a door to the north. As they open the door, a purple light shines through the cracks and they see a figure with chains dangling from their hands standing in front of a purple portal. They are bald and grey-skinned, with pointed ears. They scowl, then jump through the portal. Kuviana recognizes them as a Shadar-kai. Ophelia asks if a shadar-kai impersonated Kuviana, but she doesn't know.

In the other room, Twinkletoes is yelling at his subordinates for letting his imposter escape with his things. Kuviana defends his people, and he tells her to leave. Before she does, he gives her a coin with a halfling's face on it, and three slashes across the front. If she ever needs anything, she can spend it here. Kuviana tells him she values his friendship, but he cuts her off and says he doesn't have friends, only business partners. She says she can do that, and that he can come to the Bear Owl Bureau if he ever needs anything. He thanks her, then goes back to berating his underlings.

Balinor investigates the portal site. He finds no runes, but senses conjuration magic still. It feels like the veil between realms is very very thin here, and that it has been like this for a long time - the room just happened to be built at such a place. It's the blue moon.

They make their way back through the sewers to the Bear Owl Bureau. On their way, they come across four wererats. They are unaffected by ordinary weapons, but the party's magical attacks bring down three of them. The fourth lets out a howl and summons more werecreatures. Just before they kill it, a werewolf rounds the corner. As they fight it and another werewolf, it bites Wrath. He feels off, and the bite heals itself to become a black scar. Balinor and Kuviana recognize it as lycanthropy. The rest of the group say it's not too bad, but Wrath is dead set against becoming a werewolf. None of them know how to cure him, but Kuviana pulls out a jar of salve she got from the Shadowfell and smears it all over his face. He heals slightly, but the curse is not lifted. Ophelia checks the bodies of the lycanthropes, who have reverted to human form, and finds a potion of greater healing, a potion of fire resistance, and some kind of dust. She burns the bodies and they go.

They get back to the Bureau. The episode ends with the party talking, Wrath unable to sleep.

## Memorable Quotes

**Ben**: Just make sure you spell it right, Steph.
**Stephanie**: Nope! I'm just doin...
**Ben**: Sha-dar-kai.
**Stephanie**: Perfect.

**Stephanie**: Anytime Ben is like "Hey, don't you have this?" just be like "yeah, and you know what, just fix it, tell me what I need to add," because it's his polite way of saying "you done fucked up," okay?

**Kyle**: I mean, the problem is that my AC is 12, so yeah.
**Sean**: That hits.
**Kyle**: But - But I have a dog and the dog goes "Rrrr!" and it imposes disadvantage.

## Trivia

Sean asked for perception checks and Ben and Matt said they were slightly better at them now, so it seems they leveled up since last episode.

### Stats

(DM)
(Balinor)
(Wrath)
(Ophelia)
(Kuviana)
 **Nat 20s** | 1
 **Nat 1s** | 1