Run, Grapple, Jump

Run, Grapple, Jump is the title of the eighteenth episode episode of Jarren's Outpost Hustle, a D&D Is For Nerds Adventure.  It features Adam Carnevale as the Dungeon Master.  The episode was released on 29th August, 2017.  The introductory soundbite is "Sanspants radio: one time in meditation class I was told to count backwards from ten and just repeat that over and over again, but I kept going too far and got further back and then panicked, so just kept going, and then felt guilty that I couldn't count backwards from ten properly, and I didn't feel very meditative, and I've never meditated since." spoken by Handsome Tom. The previous episode is Piss' Gambit and the following one is Wererats and Warehouses.

## Events

1. Leo uses a spell scroll to see the invisible Greg on a warehouse roof.
2. Leo and Periwinkle climb up as Greg falls down.
3. Greg breaks into a warehouse, but Leo and Periwinkle move towards the weapon's presumed location.
4. Periwinkle announces Greg's location to the gnomes and cultists as they move onward.
5. Periwinkle makes the next jump, but Leo ends up on the ground.
6. Monday and Wednesday attack Greg.
7. Greg casts the major image of a fire in the warehouse, giving him time to escape out of the door he came in through.
8. As Periwinkle makes it on to the next building, he breaks some guttering but stays on. Leo, climbing below, gets halfway up before that same guttering impedes his progress.
9. Monday hits Greg again, causing significant lasting damage to him.
10. Periwinkle slips off a roof, landing in front of the Surefoot warehouse. He makes his way around it Leo climbs through the warehouse window, scurries through, then hurts himself breaking through the window on the other side.
11. Greg turns invisible again, and sees Shane on a rooftop behind him.

## Players & Their Characters

* Jackson Baly as Greg Piss
* Joel Zammit as Leo Shadow
* Handsome Tom as Periwinkle O'Rourke

## NPCs

* The C-Team
* Shane

## Locations

* Jarren's Outpost
* Gnomish District
* Surefoot warehouse

## Plot

Leo uses a scroll of true seeing to spot the invisible Greg Piss on a roof. Greg leaps to a nearby building and slides down, missing. Leo loses sight of him as he falls down. Periwinkle throws himself onto a roof to get to Greg, but because he can't see him, he instead decides to rip the strings off Greg's lute. Leo climbs up too, and sees Greg on the ground beneath them as well as the cacophony of gnomes and cultists beginning to surround the building. Greg kicks in a door and breaks into a warehouse, charging through it. Periwinkle sees the warehouse door get knocked through, but the two decide to make for the Surefoot warehouse. He does, however, announce Greg's location to everyone below, before the two jump onto the warehouse Greg's in. The windows on the one side break and bodies start piling in as Greg runs up onto a catwalk, and throws himself into a wall by missing a window. Periwinkle jumps to the next building, but Leo doesn't make it. He grabs his robe on the way down but still hits the ground, amassing some rope burns on his house. Leo tells Periwinkle he'll meet him at the Surefoot warehouse.

Gnomes and cultists are making their way through the warehouse. Greg tries again to get through a window, but windows are stronger than he thinks; he tries a door on the other side of the warehouse, but it's locked; he goes back the way he came. Periwinkle makes it to the next building, he's two jumps away. Leo makes his way on the ground, with the mob catching up behind him; he hears gnomes yell "wait!" but he ignores them. Some stray attacks nearly hit him. Greg jumps over a gnome towards a box but is socked by Monday with a club. As he struggles to his feet, he sees Wednesday lying sniper-style with a crossbow. The impact of the bolt he fires knocks him back onto the body of the gnome. Greg casts major image to make everyone in the warehouse think they're on fire. Monday isn't fooled, but Wednesday is. Everyone else, cultist or gnome, screams. Greg uses the opportunity to escape, but not before Monday clocks him again with the club.

Periwinkle jumps again. When he lands, he does so on the guttering - it crumples inwards and Periwinkle scrambles up. The mob continues to encroach on Leo - two more stray shots. He decides to climb - halfway up a building he tries to grab a piece of guttering but a shadow jumps over him and warps it. He stays stuck halfway up the building. The mob in the warehouse is still preoccupied with Greg's spell, but Monday grabs him by the back of the shirt and drags him back. Before Greg gets a chance to do anything, a blow from the club knocks half of Greg's teeth out. On his turn, Greg runs through the door - he turns and tries to cast lesser confusion on Monday, but Monday shakes it off.

Periwinkle jumps again, but slips and lands on the ground in front of the warehouse. Leo climbs through a window and ends up on a catwalk. He runs along it and sees Periwinkle through a window on the other side, then climbs down some stairs. After some of the gnomes figure it out, the rest of the mob catches on to Greg's ruse. Greg tries to hold the door to the warehouse shut but Monday rips it open; he swings at Greg with his club but Greg slams the door to evade it. Greg casts invisibility again.

There are no windows or doors on the side of the warehouse facing Periwinkle. Periwinkle gives Leo a thumbs-up, then runs round one side, but this one, too, has no doors or windows. Leo makes his way down the stairs, and hurts himself smashing a window. Greg hears a howl in the distance. When he turns around, he sees the silhouette of a wererat on the roof above him.

*But is this wererat Shane, or is it some other wererat Greg Piss knows? Find out next time...*

## Quotes

* "Colin is a good guy, Goggles is a Dwarf, Monday I have no information next to, Tuesday is a racist." - Handsome Tom
* "[Goggles] actually can't see that well. That's why we call him Goggles." - Handsome Tom

## Trivia

* Handsome Tom posits that, after getting his teeth knocked out, Greg sounds like a lisped Michael Caine. An impression of him done by himself can be found here.
* Periwinkle and Leo are likened to the two main characters in The Nice Guys (2016).