Everybody Turn Around

## Description

This week's episode started with an intro spiel that only took four takes to get right. Enjoy!

## Synopsis

After murdering the Minotaur Kit Gingerson takes its axe while Freezo finds a salt and pepper shaker. They move on further west  while talking about trains. Bethanee peers through the grill to see a carving of a large dwarf. Bethanee realises she has lost of hit points so lays on hand to herself while everyone else respects her privacy and turns around.

They head into a room with a giant figure of Moradin with glowing sun sapphires for eyes. Bethanee investigates the room and points at a sconce in the wall similar to the one that brought the Minotaur to life. Kit Gingerson climbs blocks the sconce as Freezo summons a magical ice cream scoop to remove the sun sapphires from the statue of Moradin.

 Bushu, Kit and Bethanee head out leaving Freezo. Bethanee activates a Cordon of Arrows. Bethanee dodges but one hits Kit. The party manage to dodge the rest.

 Freezo rejoins the party with the sun sapphires. He was zapped by a purple energy when he took them out of the statue. They head onwards as they feel the temperature increase. Bethanee opens the door to see a well into the centre of elysium. On the opposite side they can see platforms opposite with a control panel with levers. Bushu transforms into his tiny Pseudodragon form and flies over. Transforms back and pulls the first lever.

An alarm sounds, the bridge in the middle of the room begins to spin and the party is attacked by six Mephits. Freezo injures one with an Eldritch blast while Bushu uses a cold chromatic orb to kill another. Freezo keeps attacking the one from before. Bushu jumps onto the platform and uses another orb to murder another Mephit. Bethanee tries to jump on the platform but falls, Bushu casts feather fall on Bethanee. Freezo casts Fly on himself to dive down and catch Bethanee. A purple shimmer appears on Freezo and his body locks up and crashes into the wall. Bushu rushes in and uses his tentacle rod to rescue Bethanee. Bethanee commands one of the Mephits to fall. Bethanee and Kit head across the bridge to the door. Freezo activates the middle lever opening the doors and the party escapes closing the door so no Mephits can give chase.

They head into the next corridor and find the body of Joe collapsed on the floor with bite marks and arrows in his armour. Bobby and Teddy approach. Freezo threatens to scoop out Joe’s neck if they come any closer. Bethanee uses the friendship necklaces hold person to stop Freezo moving. Kit makes a lunge for the crossbow and Teddy shoots his brother “Bobby” not Simon’s current character “Kit”.

We move into combat and Bushu uses his breath weapon to create a huge cloud of acid reflux killing Teddy. Bobby uses his mace on Bethanee before Kit captures Bobby with a net crossbow. Bushu holds a knife to Bobby’s neck.

The interrogate Teddy. Lalandre has been using small wooden carvings that turn into giant magical creatures. After an intense interrogation by Freezo they agree to leave Bobby tied up on the floor. They head into the next room where they find Merrick the Righteous fighting Lalandre.

Merrick paralyses Lalandre and Bethanee attempts to sneak up on Merrick. He spins around and sees Bethanee approach him. Bethanee agrees to let Merrick remove Lalandre from the game. After casting a protection spell on himself, the Beef Babes all appear and threaten to attack Merrick 4 on 1 unless he hands over the gauntlet.

Bushu disappears into the astral plane as everyone turns around as Merrick heals himself. Kit throws the battle axe at Merrick. Bushu reappears and throws acid from behind him. Merrick slashes at Freezo before reminding him this is just a game. Bethanee applies the Sovereign on her chain before she attacks him and attaches him to her chain. Kit knocks Merrick to the ground  disarming him before Bethanee casts bold person keeping him in place before she removes his gauntlet transporting them to Torms Gate as victors of the trials of Moradin.

On stage they watch through the highlights of the championship (They didn’t like watching them kill the Minotaur, The Minotaur is also a ghost at the moment watching him being stuck to the floor and killed) The next morning they move to Moradin’s vault to get a prize for conquering the Trial of Moradin. Freezo returns the Sun Sapphires to the Dwarves in exchange for his curse being removed.

Each of the retinue get a gift for conquering the trial Moradin where as Bethanee gets a special gift.

* Kit Gingerson receives a Javelin of Lightning that can shoot lightning bolts,

* Bushu receives a Ring of the Ram that can deal concussive blasts.

* Freezo is given either a bespoke item for himself that would help him on his adventure or he could go into the vault and choose a random item. Freezo opts for “a dip in the bag” Freezo obtains eyes of minute viewing from the vault. The glasses are basically a magnifier glass and far inferior to the Glasses of the curator he already has.

Bethanee is lead to the Forgehearth. Bethanee attains Moradin’s pliers a viridian swiss army knife. She is not impressed and demands something more impressive. She receives 120 gold coins some mentos and blood pact with a Dwarf for help when the war on elemental evil arrives Moradin and Pelor will work together.

## Characters

### Beef Babes

* Bethanee Smiles
* Kit Gingerson
* Freezo F Freezopherson
* Bushu

### NPCs

* Bobby and Teddy

* Merrick the Righteous

* Lalundre
* Trondor
* Dwarfhome Dwarf

## Places

* Moradin’s Maze
* Torm’s Gate
* Moradin’s Beard
* Dwarfhome

## Themes Tropes and Running Jokes

* You’re a prick and you’ve got a weird dick - The Minotaur instantly is aware of Freezo’s Very Normal Chongus
* Michael Hing’s poor luck and addiction to “a dip in the bag” begins

## Quotes

* “Do you think Minotaur’s eat grass? ... where does the cow bit end?”
* “Ah so you called for the old tinkerer!” - “That’s your other character”
* “Do a powerful fart”
* “Are you Sandra Bullock? Cause you’re in the Net”
* “You really put the Ghoul In Goulash”
* “We could lay low and wait for them to polish each other off” - “Stop saying that”