Season 1 Episode 5 "The Lord of Chaos Part 3"

The dads face off against the Cult of the Doodler. They meet Chekhov's snake, Henry takes advantage of his newfound skills, Ron makes new friends, Daryl rallies a crowd, and Glenn invents a new D&D weapon mechanic to devastating effect.

## Intro

This episodes intro features Henry recapping the previous episode through a "Yep that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this crazy situation" monologue. This is an homage to a popular meme format that stems from a trope commonly found in film.

## Summary

The scene resumes back below in the prison with the three remaining dads and Lark, who is now locked into a cell. The group notices a hooded character remaining in a cell, which happens to be a man-sized snake who Darryl ends up freeing due to an attempted handshake. The snake bows and leaves with no other information being exchanged. Darryl addresses a shapeshifter rescued in the previous episode and they take the group over to the armory where their belongings and clothes are being held.

The scene cuts back to Henry and Sparrow at the top of the tower in the elevator where Sheriff David Boreanaz has just commanded his soldiers to attack. While in wolf form, Henry successfully hit the "down" button and the elevator begins slowly descending, but not before Boreanaz and two other men jump on. Henry bites Boreanaz and Sparrow follows suit. In retaliation, a guard critically hits Sparrow who falls unconscious, but is still holding onto the sheriff by his teeth.

Returning below to the rest of the group in the armory, they grab their things along with extra weapons. Glenn gets a pair of nunchucks, Ron fails to create a dangerous *Skip-It* and Darryl retrieves a great axe and a javelin. The shapeshifter explains their name is Everything and shows the group a bag of items they found. The group ends up not sharing the items with Everything and each collect an item; Darryl the Perfume of Bewitching and The Bag of Beans, Ron the Hat of Vermin, and Glenn the Alchemy Jug. Upon collecting all their items, the dads make their way to the top of the tower where the fight is occurring.

Reaching the top, Darryl rushes over to the elevator to see Henry fighting Boreanaz and his men. In an attempt to help, Darryl drops the Bag of Beans down the elevator shaft and four fall out. In succession, a nest of five eggs appears, an eruption of apple juice occurs, 11 pink toads pop into existence, and a pyramid with a 60 ft. sq. base breaks through the center of the elevator shaft. Due to the way the pyramid bisects the tower, Anthony creates a stack of d6 dice to represent the tower the group is on and explains that, if it falls, so does the tower in-game.

The apple juice geyser from the top of the pyramid allows the dads, except Darryl, to hold on and not slide towards their death. While rolling for Boreanaz's saving throw to hold onto the pyramid, the stack of d6 dice falls over, meaning the tower in-game begins crumbling and the pyramid crushes the Pit of Myriad Delights, along with those participating inside. Ron loses his grip and begins to fall and saves himself using the Hat of Vermin to conjure up three frogs and use two of them attach to the side of the pyramid. Glenn saves Darryl from falling by using his nunchucks to wrap around his ankle.

Henry, realizing his other son Lark was on a lower floor of the now collapsed tower, uses his wolf sense to locate him underneath the rubble. While digging him out with the help of the remaining people from the orgy pit, Glenn goes up to check on Sparrow, still unconscious and biting onto Boreanaz. Glenn ends up flourishing and hitting himself in the testicle with his nunchuck and Boreanaz kicks Sparrow off and remarks about the new world upon them due to the chaos that occurred from the Bag of Beans.

Lark is removed from the rubble and Henry reverts to human form in order to heal each kid. The four dads remark about how much they screwed up this battle and blame Everything for not taking the Bag of Beans. Reluctantly, Henry grounds both twins for attempting to summon The Doodler and causing general mischief, before immediately lifting said grounding due to being so happy his boys are okay.

The group rushes to the unharmed Honda Odyssey, with Ron grabbing one of the 5 eggs on his way. Once there, a lizard man the group had accidentally freed earlier, named Cern, approaches and says he's in debt to Darryl and joins them in the van on their adventure.

As they drive away, Lark and Sparrow are suddenly taken over by an ominous voice that isn't their own and tells the fathers they haven't learned anything, could have saved more people, and that they don't deserve these children. The twins fade out of existence while Sparrow asks if he did good.

## Dad Facts

Glenn Close: He is only 50% sure on the truth of the moon landings.

Darryl Wilson: He caught his father as Santa Claus when he was 8 but continued to believe in Santa for 3 more years.

Henry Oak-Garcia: He has an Ani DiFranco CD stuck in his Prius.

Ron Stampler: He knows the lyrics to every single Eminem song.

## Trivia

Chekhov's Snake gets his name due to the cast freeing him and not acknowledging him afterwards, thus leaving it open ended on who the character was and what their motive in the story would be

This episode establishes that Beast Shape is like an erection and a doctor should be contacted if you remain in that form longer than one hour

Freddie gives an extra Glenn fact in the episode stating he's into, "mall ninja shit," as an explanation why he grabbed nunchucks in the armory

The group moved the recording outside Freddie's apartment in order to simulate dropping the beans down an elevator shaft.

Using the information from the episode, it can be determined that Anthony rolled between an 81 and 90 (nest of eggs), a 2 and 10 (apple juice geyser), a 51 and 60 (toads), and a 91 and 99 (pyramid) for the four beans that fell out of the bag

## Cast

Anthony Burch as the DM.

Freddie Wong as Glenn Close.

Matt Arnold as Darryl Wilson.

Will Campos as Henry Oak-Garcia.

Beth May as Ron Stampler.