Episode 414 - Your Bones Are Mine

Let’s just say Skud cannot keep his little fingers out of his deck and well, that has some negative consequences. But, we cannot let anything get in our way of saving the lives of every god and I guess every person. Oh my that is a lot of pressure…

## **Story**

### Long Story

The gang thanks Clarence Scrimald for restoring Lahni's mind to her. Rowan pulls the group into a huddle and then begin to plan. They speak on where they ought to go to best frustrate Trant Thumble's efforts to kill the Gods. They decide to send out allies to different areas with sending stones, so that wherever Trant appears, they can attack him. After some deliberation they also decide to warn the inhabitants of the realms they are sending their agents to.

The Tower of Grey has tuning forks attuned to the following destinations: Arborea (where Evandra lives), Elysium (where Pelor lives), Arcadia (where Erathis lives), Limbo (neutral zone), Mechanis (neutral zone), Hades (neutral-evil zone), The Nine Hells The Shadowfell, The Feywild, The Material Plane, The Elemental Plane of Fire, The Elemental Plane of Air, The Elemental Plane of Earth, The Elemental Plane of Water, Glitterhome (where Garl Glittergold lives), Dwarfhome (where Morodin lives), The Beastlands (where Uthgar lives), and Bytopia (we all want to go to there).

Toby scries on Tiamat, who fails her roll to resist on account of being a headless corpse. Toby sees the corpse and reports it to the rest of The Tower of Grey. This writes Mt. Celestia off of their list of priority regions.

There is much discussion around their various allies that they can call on for help. Many names are brought up, such as Lucious Incendous, and the 3 Bone Card battlers that came with the Tower: Pandora Thorne, Duclaw Honeypaw, and Wordsworth Zics. Sometimes, the party thinks that they brought back Sharpe Lestat with them, but they did not. He was left behind and killed by Tiamat, along with Ysla Caine and Killian Dred. They also mention Skipper and Dipper and Zipper, of the various White Flounders. There's also the many members of the Tower of Grey, such as Rake, Amber Reeves, Frank, etc. There's also everyone in Tidtowne. And, there's also Ioun, the god of all knowledge.

Wisely, they split the party to cover more ground.

Skud and Rowan take the teleportation network to go to the castle of Pelor's Hope to meet with Queen Ashayara Dayne. Skud accidentally pulls a card from his Deck of Many Things through the unwise application of close-up magic, with the result being that the card is sucked into Rowan's head, giving his *Undead Thralls* feature to her for one week. The skeletons that he had been animating fall apart and disintegrate.

Skud and Rowan meet Queen Ashayara Dayne as she is finishing her dinner of roast pheasant, and Rowan takes the opportunity to reanimate the meal and make it dance, dunk itself in gravy, and slap its butt. Rowan then gives her sister the BAD news: That Trant Thumble is trying to kill the gods and could show up anywhere at any time. Queen Ashayara Dayne asks if they tried to scry on Trant Thumble. Rowan is confused for a moment as she is under the impression that they had done that, but Ashayara wonders aloud if maybe they had talked about scrying on Trant and then never followed up on that with action. Rowan calls Toby, they realize that they never actually DID scry on Trant. Then, Toby rudely hangs up the phone and the scene shifts to focus on him.

Lahni and Toby are in Toby's parents' home eating Cadbury Cream Egg Salad and Fluffernutter sandwiches, and for a moment Toby excuses himself to scry on Trant after urging his family not to be weird to Lahni. Toby's invisible sensor blinks into existence near Trant Thumble, showing Toby a fiery colosseum full of cheering beings. This is the colosseum of Caer as it now exists, after having fallen into The Abyss. Trant is watching Garyon and Baphomet fight in the arena from the highest status seat. Toby casts *Suggestion* through the Crystal Ball of Telepathy onto an older gentleman near Trant, making that person ask Trant which place he is going to go next. Trant discloses that he was considering The Feywild or Arcadia next, but is going to go for Melora next, before slashing the head off the man as punishment for his being weak willed. Then, he looks directly at the scrying orb, revealing that he has *True-Sight*.

### Short

After restoring Lahni's control and mind, the player characters decide to use their allies and sending stones to cast a net of influence over the realms. They split their party, Skud and Rowan going to Pelor's Hope]], and Lahni and Toby going to Glaine, the Jewel of the East. In the castle at Pelor's Hope, Skud uses a card from his Deck of Many Things thereby losing his Undead Thralls feat to Rowan, Which Rowan uses to disturb her sister Queen Ashayara Dayne while warning her about Trant's Plans. Rowan then calls Toby to tell him to remind him to scry on Trant. Toby does this, and discovers that Trant has true-sight. Trant says that he is going to attack Melora next, but since he knew he was being scried upon that could have been misdirection.

## *Trivia*

* This episode was written by Hugo! And then I, MisterRed, came through and made some minor adjustments. Thanks, Hugo!
* Michael says Clarence Scrimald is a human, but this is not the case (he is a tiefling).
* It is determined that Xena Meloncamp is now a young adult, more or less. Cheryl Meloncamp has since died of old age and been made into a "Bride of Flesh-Gnollem" by Steve Meloncamp.
* Skud has been dodging Toby trying to teach him utility spells this whole time.
* Toby's favorite letters are "S" and "M"

## **In This Episode...**

### **Cast and Player Characters**

* Michael DiMauro - *Dungeon Master*
* Tim Lanning - Toby Treacletart
* Jennifer Cheek - Rowan Grey / Queen Aludra Wyrmsbane
* Mike Bachmann - Skud Derringer
* Nika Howard - Lahnik "Lahni" Caplain / Jaela

### **Non-Player Characters**

* Clarence Scrimald
* The Corpse of Tiamat
* Queen Ashayara Dayne
* Trant Thumble
* Baphomet

### **Locations**

* Drunkeros
	+ Greenham
	+ Pelor's Hope
	+ Glaine, the Jewel of the East
* The Abyss
	+ Caer
		- Great Colosseum

### **Quest Log Updates**

* [Whelp...] - ~~Stop Tiamat~~ / The BBEG!
* [Active] - Destroy The Artifact!
	+ [Complete] - ~~Find Trant Thumble~~
* [Active] - Find Bigby
* [This has probably resolved itself by now?][Jaeludra] - ~~Help Yazdir Dosh fight off Tiamat's forces at Mount Celestia~~

### **Quotes**

* **"That is too many hells, in my opinion!"** ~ *Jennifer Cheek*

* **"Listen, I'm gonna call in a favor. And before you hang up on me: Yes, I am sending you to hell."** ~ *Toby Treacletart*

* **"Or maybe Frank can go to hell! He loves it there, it's where the bank is!"** ~ *Jennifer Cheek*

* **So, Steve isn't taken, is what you're saying?** ~ *Hugo, in the chat*

* **"If it's useful, Skud doesn't have it. You should all know this by now."** ~ *Mike Bachmann*

* **"Rowan, you are now a Bone-Mancer"** ~ *Michael DiMauro*

* **"Is it possible that one of you suggested you might scry for him, and then, it just sort of, trailed off, and then, you never did it? Is that possible?"** ~ *~~Michael DiMauro~~ Ashayara Dayne*

## **Rolls**

* **Recap**
	+ **Tim - Nat1** - Reverse Bapped
	+ Bachmann - 4
	+ Jennifer - 6
	+ Nika - 16

* **Toby** rolls *History* to see if he recognizes where Trant is - 27
	+ Success - He knows this to be the Great Colosseum in Caer in The Abyss