Blood & Bread

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## Blood & Bread

The remnants of House Rocks reel from a sudden betrayal and a devastating death.

### Overall

5
10
78

### Runtime

1:36:59

TRANSCRIPT

## Credits

### Executive Producers

**Sam Reich**David Cyr Kearns

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Micheal Schaubach

Adam Frucci (Co-)

## Episode Guide

### Next

Safe Harbor
At the Mountains
of Sweetness

> "*[Italian accent] I'M-A THE QUEEN OF-A CANDYLAND!*"
> ― Brennan Lee Mulligan
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**Blood & Bread** is the tenth episode of season 5, A Crown of Candy.

## Recap

"Welcome, one and all, to another episode of A Crown of Candy. I'm your dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan, with me are some of our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes. We are going to not start by rolling initiative. You see before you Castle Candy, the town of Dulcington beneath and we see all the various peoples and you see that in fact, the environs of Castle Candy extend not just in our board, but at the borders of it as well. We're gonna resolve some stuff before we jump straight into battle. Let's go ahead and start with Theobald."

## Synopsis

Theo having burst from Sir Toby's room surprise attacks the muffin soldiers, dropping all three before they are able to draw weapons. He runs towards the king's quarters looking for Amethar and the princesses, but instead finds Queen Caramelinda who is unaware of the imminent danger present inside the castle. Muffin soldiers turn the corner and draw crossbows at the queen. Theo jumps in front the queen saving her. The two run away from the approaching soldiers while being fired upon. They hid in a secret passageway as Calroy calls after her boasting about King Amethar's fall. The two race down a spiral staircase not taking Calroy's bait.

An invisible ruby races up from Dulcington. Having just felt Jet pass, she runs to the stone circle. She passes Cumulous on the way there but he is completely unaware of her presence. Ruby begs the Sugar Plum Fairy to bring Jet back. The Sugar Plum Fairy tells her that she cannot do do that but their may be a way to bring all of them to Jet and her if they go north in the Great Stone Candy Mountains before disappearing. Ruby rushes into the castle still sneaking around. As she approaches she sees the carrot paladin with 30 knights. Cumulous feels the presence of the Sugar Plum Fairy briefly returning before Ruby approaches invisibly. However, Cumulous sees glowing a deep burning red footsteps as someone passes. Ruby get to the the castle and sees her fathers body where it landed by the parapet and runs to him. Cumulous sees this as well and stealth to his side as well not knowing it is Ruby with him.

Liam still in the lingerie store still in the rope trick with Jet's body. Two Ceresian assassins have already left. One remains with an injured Ciabatta. Ciabatta knows that someone darker than darkness attacked him and suspects Liam is responsible. He also mentions that they don't have anymore water daggers and they cannot make anymore. Once Liam watches them leave he reemerges from the rope trick and investigates the glowing chest. Inside is alchemically treated rock. He takes Jet's body and places her in a cabinet to keep safe but takes the locket, sword, and all hardware he thinks Ruby would want to keep. Once done he stealth's off into the night using the locket to follow Ruby through town to Amethar.

Amethar crawls out the crater and sees dull red footsteps approach. He gives her the warmest hug possible. Liam announces his presence to them they bring him into the hug. Amethar tells them that Calroy has betrayed them. As they say they need to gather the rest of their group Cumulous surprises them with his presence. Ruby tells Liam to keep the locket because it only is usefully if it has another half. A secret door opens on the side of the wall and Theobald and Queen Caramelinda walk out. Ruby and Liam tell them that Jet is dead after investigating the lingerie shop and Ciabatta is responsible. Above in the castle a commotion is heard. Caramelinda tells them that all of the Tartguard and House Rock guards were sent north to Jawbreaker at Calroy's insistence. Liam want to go after the carrot paladin but the group keeps him from going on a suicide mission. As horns are blown and they hear dogs barking, Ruby hides their scent. Using another secret passage the group escape to outside the castle walls. They see House Rock banners being cut down and replaced by House Cruller. Soldiers rouse in the tents.

The group move through the field just out of vision between the castle and the tents. Cumulous lags behind to attack the hunting dog. One yelps as it is attacked and alerts the soldiers. As the rest keep traveling forward Liam sees that both bridges ahead are crawling with alert soldiers. Cumulous kills most of dog before a vegetarian chariot approaches. The soldiers ask if he is a part of House Cruller before Cumulous attacks them. Liam hears the commotion behind them and uses his crossbow to rapid fire shoot and kill the two soldiers. At this point Cumulous is discovered.

Ruby mage hands a thief's lantern into the night as a diversion which works and castle archers shoot after it and not them. Cumulous extinguishes the torches commandeers the chariot to drive it off the cliff while hard candy spears are launched at him. Liam cloaks the party minus Cumulous in shadow as they keep moving forward. Cumulous from a far feels the call of something similar to the Hungry One. As Cumulous launches the chariot over the edge of the crevasse and her turns into a little cloud of pink mist and doubles back before reconstituting near his original position. Liam hears the grass tell him they will keep his secret and will not make a noise as they run to the river bank. Ruby mage hand the lantern into a tent by the bridge and it is lit on fire.

The group jumps across Cola river and rushes into town square and are met with Ciabatta warriors. Before a single one of the occupying militia's army can raise a weapon the remains of the royal family obliterates them. Liam does not hesitate and shoots an arrow in to Ciabatta before using bursting to kill him and injure a few others around him. Ruby hides behind Liam and she finishes off the injured warrior. Amethar steps forward and rages as he slices through three others in front of him. Caramelinda admits that "he is good at what he does." Theo then steps forward and kills the last warrior.

With the help of the wind Cumulous dashes halfway across the field without being noticed by the soldiers traveling down the road towards the on fire bridge. Theo, Caramelinda, and Ruby continue running to Manta Ray's ship while messaging him to get ready to go. Amethar and Liam go up to the lingerie shops to retrieve Jet's body. Amethar gently carries his daughter and exits the shop with Liam. Soldiers start crossing the bridge shooting at them. Cumulous suddenly leaps on top of a nearby building. Manta Ray meets them at the dock. Amethar pushes the boat from the docks which snaps the ropes holding it in place. The entire party climbs onto the ship as the sailors desperately try to unfurl the sails. Ruby mage hands them down and they sail up the river they escape Candia. Silence descends. Amethar stands at the front holding the body of Princess Jet as the night envelopes them all.

## Locations

* Candia
* Castle Candy

## Featured Characters

### The Taste Buds

* King Amethar of House Rocks
* Princess Ruby Rocks
* Sir Theobald Gumbar
* Liam Wilhelmina
* Cumulous Rocks
* Princess Jet Rocks (†) (mentioned)

### Returning

* Imperator Augustus Ciabatta
* Lord Calroy Cruller
* Queen Caramelinda of House Rocks
* Sir Keradin Deeproot
* Sprinkle
* The Sugar-Plum Fairy
* Yak
* Ceresian Gladiator
* Manta Ray Jack

### Mentioned

* Archbishop Fettucina Alfredi (†)
* Sir Toby (†)
* Dracoria Azucar (sensed by Cumulous Rocks)

## Trivia

* According to the official *Dimension 20* Twitter account, there were two rejected titles for this episode including "The Grains of Calorum" and "The Bread Wadding."
* The initial ending for "Blood & Bread" was Emily Axford rejoining the table as Queen Saccharina in the last thirty seconds of the episode. In the initial ending, Saccharina had blasted a group of enemies with *Cone of Cold*, joined the party on the boat, and greeted King Amethar with "Hi daddy." Brennan Lee Mulligan had wanted to have the full cast to celebrate, as a family, the completion of filming ten episodes of A Crown of Candy together before a two week hiatus.
	+ The day after filming the initial ending, both Brennan and Emily decided to give Saccharina a more dramatic, drumroll-like entrance in a later episode. When filming resumed two weeks later, the ending of "Blood & Bread" was reshot. However the footage of the re-shot ending became corrupted, but its audio had not been.
	+ To make up for the corrupted footage of the re-shot ending, A Crown of Candy's character artist Samir Barrett was commissioned to create an illustration for the end of the episode.

## References

1. ↑ Dropoout.tv, Dimension 20's Adventuring Party, "The Wild Childs"