Episode 177 - Unleashed

## Intro

**Episode description:**
A doooozie this one is.

**Opening Quote:**
Sean: That was a chock-full episode.

**Player introduction:**
Sean: Hello and welcome to another episode of the tabletop champions podcast, I'm Sean your dungeon master and with me tonight I have... oh who do I have, what - Kyle who plays Cam...

Kyle (in Craig voice): Hiiii!

Sean: Matt who plays Cyrus...

Matt (in Cyrus' voice): Look into my eye.

Sean: Ben who plays Kallas...

Ben (in Kallas' voice): Greetings.

Sean: Stephanie who plays Boone...

Stephanie (in Boone's voice): Ahoy-hoy.

Sean: And Lauren who plays Dagna.

Lauren: Always question the halfling. They're a little suspect.

\*laughter\*

Matt: \*groan\*

Sean: That's applicable.

Sean: Hey guys!

Kyle: Ohhhh, that one. That one -

Various: Hey Sean!

Kyle: That one made me genuinely chuckle. Um, also I was thinking about the i -

Matt: That just made me groan.

Kyle: - the idea of editing all the different accents of "Look into my eye" from this season, cause like

Matt: Come on, it is hard to do an accent.

Kyle: I'm just saying, there's a subtle variation each time you do it. I like it.

Matt: Hmmm. It should - it might be like the Christmas edition of the podcast, it's a CD you can purchase.

Stephanie: Who purchases CDs?

Kyle: Uh...

Sean: Right?

Matt: Or, or -

Stephanie: Like, no one!

Matt: Or iTunes, or whatever, come on!

Kyle: Yeah, just join our Columbia House uh, record deal and -

Sean: Who buys music?

Kyle: - we'll get you seventeen CDs

Sean: - CDs for a penny.

Kyle: Cause that's what they're worth today!

Stephanie: Yup.

Sean: But you get Joshua Tree for free.

Kyle: Ohhh, yeah. Except you don't get it for free, because you forget to do whatever the thing you're supposed to do and they charge you like $75.

Sean: Shipping.

Kyle: Alright, anywho. Uhhh, that's Columbia House. Um, Matt is apparently the last -

Sean: That's our Columbia House goof.

Kyle: You know. He's got a - he's got a last - the last working discman, but.

Matt: Bye.

Stephanie: Clippin' it onto his belt.

Lauren: What is happening.

Sean: No, mini disc player.

Kyle: Oh, I had a mini disc player.

Stephanie: Oh, those things were garbage. God, they were garbage.

Kyle: Alright, hold on. This - this conversation feels much like a bonus zone, so let's, let's focus back to the show here.

Stephanie: Okay, we should probably play D&D.

Kyle: I'm gonna - let me make a bonus zone cut note here, uh, "Mini disc players." Got it. Alright.

Matt: Goddammit.

## Episode Summary

Cold open: *We find ourselves observing a group. Perhaps friend, maybe enemies. At this point, no one is sure. Looking down from the heavens it's easy to see the mortals as lesser, just a trifling pack scrapping to eke out a cruel existence in a world of my design. I don't see it so. This world that mortals call home isn't a proving ground or a question to be answered. It is a place of existence, a thing of beauty not meant to be understood. Mortals tie all manner of meaning to their existence, be it through gods or wealth or an unseen motivation that drives them forward. Life is a fickle thing, but I tell you, their choices are their own. There is no fate, or imperative, and no lack of free will. My creations have their choice to do what they will, and in the face of great evil some rise to the challenge. In times like these, every happenstance or coincidence is seen as fate. It is not so. The world and all its things belong to them. I merely observe. I am Jazirian, and this is my creation.*

* The episode begins just after Dagna counterspelled Tinker's wish, Tinker fell backwards off a pillar, and Kallas dove after him. The djinni, angry that his wish was counterspelled, sets a whirlwind on the party. While they fight the djinni, Kallas barely manages to catch Tinker and use his pixie feather to slow their fall. Tinker says Kallas shouldn't have saved him, because it puts him in more danger, but Kallas says he refuses to let Tinker die. Dagna grabs the lamp, sees that one of two wishes have been used, and wishes the djinni to form an alliance with them, stop fighting them, and live in the lamp until they call him out to fight for them. He introduces himself as Ishtax and agrees to fight for them one time, after which his bargain will be fulfilled and he will return to the plane of air.
* The group reconvenes, and Dagna asks Tinker why Asmodeus was trying to kill them. He says he's sorry, but he has to go, and crushes a gem he's wearing as a necklace and disappears. Ten seconds later, Dagna falls unconscious. Cam heals her, and then Cyrus falls unconscious. Cam heals him, and the party flees on the carpet. They look back and see Tinker reappear, covered in blood, wounded, with an intact gem on his necklace. Then he turns and disappears again. Cam deduces that he attacked Dagna's and Cyrus's mirrors, and says they must kill him. As they leave the cave, they see that the entrance was a snake's head. They return to the tavern on the edge of the desert (picking up Kibs outside the cave).
* They meet Peter Papermaker, who has a Speak with Dead scroll for Dagna in exchange for a song about a Plymouth the Peddler and five copper.
* They set up the cabin. Cam wants to kill Tinker, but Kallas reminds them Cyrus's painting said he could still be saved. He also points out that their mirrors probably aren't dead, since they didn't die, and that Tinker is a reluctant servant. Cyrus paints Tinker again. It features a large shadowy figure with horns and snakes hanging from its neck, with two shadowy arms, one on Tinker, the other on Cyrus. In front of Tinker and Cyrus is Boone, with Cyrus's halberd embedded in her chest. Boone feels that the painting is evil and throws it in the fire, but it doesn't burn.
* Cyrus tells Dagna that after he was exiled from Jildos, he painted a nobleman dead, and it came true. After telling the story, he feels like he can't remember something about Jildos. He tries talking about the battle that got him exiled, and realizes he can't remember it at all. Instead, there's a three day time gap, and his eye is coursing with good power.
* The episode ends with a knock at the door.

## Memorable Quotes

Lauren (singing): If you're screwed and you know it clap your hands
Party: \*clap clap\*

Ben: Steph, you had to - you know you only pick one of those, right? You don't get all four of those.
Stephanie: Oh. Why not? Just - tshh, whatever.
Kyle: This is the downfall of Ben having access to your character sheet.
Stephanie: I know!

## Trivia

* Stephanie accidentally called Tinker Taako, a character from the D&D podcast The Adventure Zone.
* Ben rolled initiative for Stephanie because of technical difficulties, and rolled a nat 20 for her and a nat 1 for himself. Later he rolled 41 points of damage for Boone's attack.
* Everyone forgets about Kibs.
* Peter Papermaker was introduced this episode.