Spout Lore + Critshow Crossover – Episode 3 – The Continuining

Hello everybody and welcome. I'm your game master Sean O'Hara joined by Abdulaziz. Hey everybody. And Rev from The Crit Show. Hello. This is episode three of the Spout Lore Crit Show crossover. If you have not heard the rest of the crossover, head over to Spout Lore and The Crit Show to catch episodes one and two. And guess what? After this episode, episode four is already live on The Crit Show. So you don't have to miss the next part of the story. You don't have to wait. You don't have to wait.

You don't have to wait. And waiting, as we all know, is the biggest torture that you can experience in the modern day. So go over to The Crit Show's feed to get that sweet, juicy fourth episode. It's so juicy, guys. What? So we find you all coming into the inn that wanders. So what is Mother Never Was? Yeah. Is that familiar to anyone? Yeah. Perel froze his brow and thinks for a moment. Mother, do you say Mother Never Was? Yeah. She's like a story, like a fairy tale.

A woman that supposedly lives in the marshlands of the Blacktree Principality. You can go to her and ask to be the person that you wish to be. And she sort of makes a deal with you. But I didn't think she was real. Well, this guy certainly seems to think so. He kept saying over and over again that he would get back to where he was supposed to be and that Mother Never Was would pay. Huh. Wow. So is this like some sort of… Wish gone wrong situation? Maybe. Maybe this is Daddy Never Is.

Wait, you guys have somebody named Daddy Never Is? No. No. No, we don't. Wouldn't it be Daddy Always Is? The opposite of Mother Never Was. Yeah. Daddy Always Is. Yeah. Perel points at Kim. Yeah. You know what? That sounds more plausible to me, honestly. The daddy that always will be. I'd like to roll Spout Lore on that, please. Just totally waste a roll here. No, I want to roll. Ooh, you got a six and a nine. Jari, you guys can't antagonize me into rolls anymore.

You got to antagonize Rev into rolls. Oh, have we switched play systems yet? Not until you go through the door to their world. Oh. Okay. Okay, then go ahead and somebody roll me a 2d6 plus intelligence Spout Lore. God damn it. I would, but I actually have bardic lore. Can I use gods and their servants? Yeah, I think that that probably applies. Okay. So keep in mind that this is the, this is the one and only question you're ever going to get about Mother Never Was. Yeah.

When you first encounter an important creature, location, or item covered by your bardic lore, you can ask the GM any one question and the GM will answer truthfully. The GM may then ask you what legend song or tale you heard that information. And, um, okay. Uh, what is the deal with Mother Never Was? . .! That's a great question. He did say that she'll make a deal with you. So. Exactly. And that, you know what, Jake, that's a good idea. That's a good point.

I took says, and he's like, that is what I meant. What is the deal that Mother Never Was makes and how could it possibly go wrong? Uh, okay. So. That's part A of one question. . Question one A. Give me a second. Uh, so the deal with Mother Never Was is as Perel. Uh, referenced, she's supposedly some sort of folkloric figure that lives in the marshlands of the Blacktree principality and is kind of a crossroads deal maker sort of figure.

If you want to change something about yourself, you want to become better at a certain skill. You want to know what life would be like if this person loved you, uh, you can go and make a deal with her and she'll make you that person and how it can possibly go wrong is you've heard stories that might suggest that how she's going to make a deal with you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As the like during a fire during a fire it sounds like I'm lying it's the way I'm saying remembering this it sounds like I'm lying but I'm not anyway uh the it was it was a speed metal album which is made it's written it's that's when a guy who's on speed is making an album uh and it's it was recorded entirely as his house was burning down so he was very close to like the he was close to the veil you know he was close to like death and like all possibilities of like what he could possibly be so that's why he was able to kind of like look into like the infinite manifolds that exist outside of time and space uh see that like all of reality converging onto itself in a fractal form and it made a pretty good ep is what I'll say that's metal as hell it is yeah it's sold like shit though no he's right I I died once you get that you get that for a little bit and then it sort of goes away but nice all you need for infinite knowledge is just amphetamines and arson that was the name of the album and you can you can take that to the bank jake pearly of the crit show says yep so that's what you uh that's what you learned of uh what you remember of the stories of mother never was okay so this guy made a deal or maybe not this guy but like a version of him made a deal he got switched out or switched out with the wrong version something he lost where he was from and he's trying to get it back well I wonder did this guy get brought in or was he sent somewhere else because if she swaps you out with another version of yourself maybe he ended up somewhere he didn't like or maybe he just had no idea that's what he was going to happen and now he's brought to this new place yeah he said that he wanted to rebuild home so maybe he's not trying to get back to your guys's world exactly but maybe it's like a close bridge or maybe ours is or something I think the confused twin said he was gonna get me home and he was gonna go home so can't go on I have nothing this wasn't this wasn't leaving me this wasn't leaving me this wasn't leaving me you looked at me like that's not the solution I was hoping if I said it out loud it would make sense because you do know that other worlds seem to have been ended because of this phenomenon so it's not just two people trying to switch one or two worlds and that um the confused twin has been swapped so many times sometimes he swaps fully sometimes his mind just goes into a different body so he doesn't remember where he originally comes from anymore he just knows that he's not the one who's going to be the one who's going to be coming from anywhere because of his mental state and his mental state of struggle and his mental state of his home was.

But the man in black needs him because he needs two bodies in different realms to basically achieve what they're attempting to achieve. So he's just kind of a bystander, but you have Jake Spell locked the man in black out of the man in white's mind.

So he currently is unable to inhabit him, which I think, which was also suggested to be even worse, because if the man in black completes what he's attempting to in Indianapolis without completing the same thing in McCall, then it stands to destroy even more of reality. No, it's probably fine. So. Perel throws his hands up and goes and sits in a booth. So still speed is the better part of valor here. Yeah. I mean, we don't know what we don't know. We got to get answers out of this guy.

So we got to go get this guy. All right. You you all sure you're up for this whole different plane of existence? Yeah. Tuck turns around when you say, are you ready? Yeah. And his beard has so much barbecue sauce on it. And he's got a whole rack of ribs and a little hamburger on top of it as well. And he's like, oh, buddy, I was born ready. And then he picks up a little cup of hollandaise and he's like, but I'm bringing this stuff with me. OK, if that's fine.

Yeah, that'll actually make you fit in in the Midwest like way more. So that's pretty perfect. We just got to get him a bottle of ranch and it'll be flawless. I got the bottle of ranch. I'm ready. All right. I will crack open the door to our world and lead the way home. Is Perel coming as well? Yeah. Perel starts hyperventilating as everybody starts walking through the door and then gathers up his strength and forces himself through.

So as you have all come through the doorway into Indianapolis, this energy flows through you and everything about you kind of shifts and adjusts to incorporate, the world that you're headed into. So why don't you each tell me about your new playbooks that you have? OK, Tuck is now the hard case. Yes. Yes. I've fought anything normal that can be fought and I've won. Monsters need a beat down and there is not any nobody that can't give them the thrashing that I can't.

So many negatives in that statement. OK. So my name is Tacoma Dome. My look is that I am dressed like the guy whose clothes that I stole is what I've decided. So. I just got that your name is Tacoma Dome. That's good. What was that guy wearing? You said it was like a bunch of buckles and belts and stuff. Sounds like a gimp suit. He's just like. It's like Eddie Murphy's Raw. But yeah, I'm definitely thinking more like trip pants, but it's like like trip one hop. Yeah. Like tatter kilt. Yeah.

I've got a tattered kilt on. I've got a half shirt, a mesh half shirt that's made out of like kind of like a jingly sort of material. It resembles chainmail, but it is not chainmail and does not provide any kind of armor in any way. I've got. Doc Martens boots on and I have a little backpack that is looks like a workout backpack that did not change at all. And my ratings are charm plus one cool plus one sharp plus one tough plus three weird minus one.

And I think it's important to point out that as you come to this portal, because they are magical, Larry, Terry and Chad form into whatever your main weapon is like. They kind of shift like, oh, yeah, this is awesome. And they take a new form. Yeah. Yeah. But they. So it comes through and it's an axe on this side. Also, it's the guitar kind of axe. But it is also shaped like an axe. So I use it as a weapon. And then I also can play music out of it.

If I took a lesson or something, because my character doesn't really know how to play music. I thought for sure you were also going to go. With you're wearing a top hat. So you just look like Slash in this world. Yeah. I have big. My bald head has big curly hair on it. And I'm also wearing a top hat that has a little rat skull on it. And I have my giant axe shaped axe. And then my two basic weapons are a big knife, which is what the waning knife turns into. And then a shotgun.

Because I thought Taz's shotgun was so cool. Nice. And this shotgun on the side of it has the words, Daddy's little helper just etched into it. Why, you ask? We're going to find out together, my friend. I don't think I said this, but Tuck is the same size. He didn't change. So seven feet tall, five feet wide, three feet deep. But the thing that did change for him physically is he's now. Extremely nearsighted or farsighted or bug. He's bug. He's got bifocals on.

When he came through, bifocals formed on his face. So he needs to kind of like look through both of them to see what's going on. Great. Who's next? Okay. So Billy is going to be the monstrous. The description says, I feel the hunger, the lust to destroy. I never give in. I'm not. Human anymore. Not really. But I have to protect those who still are. That way I can tell myself I'm different to the other monsters. Sometimes I can even believe it. I chose the weird option to use magic.

I took a plus two to charm. Zero for cool. Minus one sharp. Minus one to tough. And three plus to weird. Curses. I took pure drive. And for that, it says one emotion rules you. Pick from hunger, which is what I chose. So I'm not even going to list the others. This is pretty obvious. Whenever you have a chance to indulge that emotion, you must do so immediately or act under pressure to resist. So, I mean, that's pretty realistic for me.

Is your monstrous, like listening to it described, have you become like more of the raccoon that you're wearing? Have you become kind of a fairy? Like what direction has this gone? So, like appearance. Wise, Billy looks like still like physically the same. Still a little redheaded, two feet tall, two feet wide, little baby boy. But he's in like one of those Halloween costumes that are like for toddlers. And a little bear costume. Oh, you got to stop. My heart can't take this. Oh my God.

I'm in love. And it's got like the hood with the little ears on it. He also has a fanny pack. That's definitely too big and probably from the 80s. And it keeps all of his snacks in there. Little rocks that he likes. Tiny daggers that he keeps just like jumbled in there, I guess. I'm going to start crying. He's wearing little Converse sneakers. We match! So cute. This is how you build a character with longevity. Because we will all die. We will die for you. Thank you. All right. What about Ving?

You're going to die for me, but for other reasons probably. Ving's the primal. Oh, nice. Nice. Yeah. And I do want to give a shout out to our community manager. This is a playbook that he designed. Oh, cool. Thanks, Mike. Mike. What's up, buddy? So sorry, Mike. I got too familiar there. He will love it. No worries. May I call you buddy? The primal. You don't scare me. Raw elemental power courses through my veins. Bolts of lightning, raging fires, roaring waves.

These are nothing compared to the fury that I bring. And Ving has crystal encrusted arms, but they have now turned into sleeve tattoos. Cool. Cool. Yeah. So he's covered in tattoos all up down here. Cool. So he's got tattoos all up down his arms. And in his chest, he's got a big chest tattoo, like a big circle chest tattoo of an amethyst cave. His wild gray hair has been tamed into two beautiful ponytails. I guess kind of like pigtails. Chemos, cutoffs, toe shoes, but the same color as his skin.

Oh. Okay. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. There's a ton of work. I chose many fanny packs. So I have fanny packs all around like utility belts layered on top of each other with more snacks for Billy and guitar picks and things that I need with all my herbs and things that keep me alive. I have primal force.

So I'm deeply connected to one of the primal forces in the world. Decide what it is and how you're connected to it and how it manifests. Sean said it's probably fine if it's just the elements, which that sounds cool. Yeah. For the gear, I took force weapons pulse. It's one harm close area primal obvious. I don't know what that means. Primal obvious. So I think earlier when it was saying like pick the primal element, it's like, are you more connected to fire, earth, water, wind?

Like what is the thing that you feel the best at? And that's what all of these kind of flow through. I'm totally fine with you switching between them. It may just be like an act under pressure role or something if it's a kind of a tent situation and you're trying to go from water to fire or something. Okay. Okay. I like doing. Uh, air instead of water. Okay. So that kind of fits with slippery and pulse. Cool. Like a fart in the wind. Mundane weapons.

I took brass knuckles cause I have all those rings. So that just makes sense. Which gives me a one harm. Uh, my ratings. I got a charm minus one cool plus two sharp minus one tough zero weird plus two. And, uh, Sean in a departure from the norm. Why don't you tell us about Perel's playbook? Yeah. Yeah. So the first one is the exile. The description is what is this place? Am I in hell? One moment fighting the devil spawn sword to claw the next time surrounded by all this light and noise.

Why are you pointing that at me? And what is it? What manner of clothes are these sounds? There's a creature after it. So the exile is someone from a fantasy world who has been thrust into the modern day. My ratings are charm plus one cool plus one sharp plus two. And weird plus one. I'm supposed to choose an origin. And the reason that I've been transported to the modern day is a magical accident or side effect. I was supposed to take gear, but Perel traditionally doesn't carry any weapons.

So he very unfortunately is unarmed in this world, but he may or may not have access to some form of magic on this side. So he should be all right. In terms of what he looks like, Perel came through the portal wearing a sort of light tan Capri pants, a white tank top and a Hawaiian shirt with glasses. And once he passes through the portal, he's wearing a light tan Capri pants, a white tank top, glasses, and a Hawaiian shirt. But the Hawaiian shirt now has a tag that says Tommy Bahama.

And that is the exile. That was the one kind of qualifier I gave to Sean when we first started talking about this idea. I was like, I have to give you fair warning. I love Perel. And I know that that may not go over well. You know what, man? You're one of the few. So you all step out into the subterranean lair, four of you much different than you were when you stepped through the other side of the door. Yeah. Tuck does a sick guitar riff as soon as he walks in on the TLC X.

And by sick, I mean, it's really bad because he doesn't know how to play music. Whoa. Okay. You all look great. Really? I look like I used to be in a band. Yeah. You look great. Billy. I look good, don't I? Whoa. Look at my forever fanny pack. And look at all the snacks that came with. Wow. The next hour and a half is just Billy pulling out snacks and cheese puffs and cheese strings and cheese slices. And a fruit leather, not good, but some nuts and a cheese box. A beef jerky. Oh, man.

I can't wait to show you all the snacks that we have here. That's going to probably have to wait, though. We really need to go hunt. And I think, Perel, this is kind of unusual for you, too, because it's the first time in a long time you feel the touch of magic coursing through you. Yeah. Perel is kind of jittering around a little bit. He's got pins and needles all over his body and is doing that. Like looking at his own hands kind of thing. And he had barbecue sauce on him.

No, I think I've got barbecue sauce in me. You know what I mean? I do. Yeah, man. Yeah. It's a good feeling. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what this means yet, but I feel so good. And he starts doing squats and is like, listen to that. You can't hear my knees click at all. Oh, my God. I haven't felt this good in 100 years. So you guys live in this sewer? So it's just the sewer then for your living situation? Is your whole world sewers or is this like a specific sewer?

This is kind of like our main base of operations, I guess. This is the main sewer. But if you go up the sewer, that's where the world is. And we spend most of our time there. It's also kind of like a sewer, but just in a different way. We also spend a lot of time in a castle, which is in a mine shaft. And also, sometimes I live in a mine shaft. And I live in a mine shaft. I live in a penthouse in Chicago with my mom, who's a mummy. But when we're not there, we're usually here in the sewer.

And Tuck's like, hold on. You live in a penthouse in Chicago in this real estate market? Blows past the castle in a mine shaft thing. She's had the lease for a really, really long time. It's rent controlled. Okay. So do we have an idea where this guy's heading right now? Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The vision that I had was down in the sewers, ironically, near Monument Circle. You know, you guys keep saying that your whole world's not sewers, but so far, all you've really described is different sewers. There's sort of a magnetic attraction of the occult to the sewers. It's like a safe place away from prying eyes. Yeah.

If you're going to do secret things you don't want people to see, you're going to put it in the place that people don't want to go. Yeah. So like magic, you know, orgies. Oh. That's it. How many sewer orgies are you going to, Jake? That seems unsanitary. What? Me? No. You said that. You guys have to do orgies to do magic? Is that what you're saying, Jake? That is what I'm saying. Let's just go ahead and codify a lot of things that I say. But Pearl's a virgin. He can't.

Billy, you know that I have children. I didn't know that. I thought we were your children. I thought you adopted. Dude. Dude. You just have virgin energy, so it's easy to forget. I don't want to get into it, but technically when I became a wizard, technically I became a virgin again, but it's not really the point. Born again wizard? It's not really the point. I had to take a whole oath. I got a ring. They gave me a special ring. I made a promise. I made a promise to the big wizard in the sky.

I made a promise to the big wizard in the sky. Yeah. It's called a re-hymenization ceremony. Sorry. Sorry in advance if that was so fucked up. I'm just glad you said it instead of me. Well, actually, what's the magic situation in your world? Is it like all over the place? Technically, yes. It is present, but sort of hidden. Only those that really understand. That it's real can use it. So most of the population doesn't really know it exists.

But people like us that have to, you know, fight sort of insane monsters are well versed in its existence. You guys have Wi-Fi hotspots though, right? Yeah. I mean, I think we have one down here. Whoa. Perel puts his hands up. Go where? What? Where? Oh, we talked about this. Yours are different than ours. Yeah. Those two. We call ours ley lines. Ley lines. Oh, sorry. No. That's a cool name. Because the lines lay in different places. Yeah. In the ground. Huh? Yeah.

Rev, since we're like back in this world now, would it stand to reason that Destiny's play thing might activate? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. If anybody has a beginning of mystery move, now would be the time to roll it. Ooh. Except Kim, who already did hers. Hey, Rev, can you just tell me if I have that? Yes. There's so many words on that. There's so many words on this thing. Like, do any of the- Come on, guys. It's fucked.

Anything bolded, if it's followed by at the beginning of each mystery, then that matters. I don't think Abdul has one. I'm looking. I don't think Billy has one either. So, like, as we're talking about this magic and that it happens sometimes and some of us understand it, there's like a layer of gold that just covers my entire eyes and I sort of go blank and then blink out of it. I rolled an eight. So, on a seven to nine, I get a vague hint about the coming mystery.

So, what you see in this vision is a map that has Monument Circle on it and some X's around it and they look kind of familiar in the sense of, like, placement of areas of power or for a ritual. You see things being planted and then you see a hole where Monument Circle used to be and it's not like, oh, someone has dug this up. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, that one was awkward. Okay. I saw something.

I turned to Jake in particular. It was like one of the original circles, kind of, like a placement of power and items or something. And the monument was gone. It was like it was pulled into the void and things were spilling into it. I mean, could you get us to the spots that you saw? I think so. I can get us close to a few, maybe. All right. Well, if we've already seen him underground, then he's presumably hit at least one of these already. How many were there? Six.

Maybe we can sabotage some of the places he wants. And if we sabotage these other sources of power, that could stop whatever the man in black is attempting to do. I don't know if it'll stop it, but it might at least slow him down. Or piss him off. Either way, it's better than him succeeding. All right. Well, let's go to the next sewer. I guess. You're just going to head down this sewer, take a left at the next sewer. You're going to go two sewers past that.

The word sewer is losing all meaning to me down here. Nice down here. Can't we just take a car? I've got my moped. I can take maybe one person. Dibs on that. Whatever a moped is, it sounds fucking cool. And I think I'm an appropriate size for it. So I'm going to get on that thing. Y'all, I can get us to the general perspective. We're in proximity, but we're going to have to spread out and see what we can find. Last time that we dealt with sort of large-scale magic like this, they used rooftops.

I mean, if we can get to Monument Circle, I can try and see if I can pinpoint where this guy is right now. Okay. Yeah. Let's get going. We'll just hoof it. What is Monument Circle? Asks the player, Abdul, who's never been to Indianapolis. And the character, Tuck, who's never been to Indianapolis. It is like the very…

The very center of downtown, where all the roads, like the east, west, and north, south streets that hit the center, hit just kind of a big roundabout that's got a giant spire monument in the middle of it. Oh, cool. Oh, cool. And we battled a thunder lizard there on public television. Cool. Whoa. What's television? What's a… Our whole episode is just explaining. We know. We're not amazed by a thunder lizard. Yeah, we've all seen a thunder lizard. We've all seen a thunder lizard.

Yeah, Billy's last quote-unquote birthday, we bought him a thunder lizard. Nice! Yeah, and I've bought him two. All right, so you all head out of the sewer up to the streets of Indianapolis and towards Monument Circle. I think the four of you, the first thing you notice as you approach Monument Circle is that it kind of looks like, from your world, the water tower. Only a… Upside down. Like, the structure of it is kind of if you inverted it. But they look strikingly similar.

This is like a Marison McCall. Yeah. This is like an Amerisa water tower. Cool. And look at all these motor bears. Instead of legs, they have wheels. And no faces. And I don't mean… I don't want to be that guy, but have you noticed that, like, almost everyone is a human? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's our world. Huh. What happened to all the other… What happened to all the others? Yeah, where are the halflings? Like, am I not allowed here? Where's all the normal people?

I don't know how to answer any of this. Like, any of this. And when Tuck materialized in this world, an iPhone 13 materialized in his pocket. And he's like, what? What is Twitter, and why is it being so mean to me right now? That is one of the worst evil creatures in our world. Stay away from it. Who's Elon Musk, and why is everybody so upset about him? Why is all four of these chans so angry? I'm going to be honest. I think that your guys' Wi-Fi hotspots are way more dangerous than ours. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Ours just reactivate ancient magical artifacts that could kill… Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I might just go back with them, honestly. I don't blame you.

Okay, yeah, as we get to Monument Circle, I'm going to, you know, dodge across the street as soon as there's no cars coming and get up as close as I can to the center and try and reach out with my mind and see if I can figure out where this guy is. All right, roll tune in. 11. All right, you get a hold three. Where is the creature right now? Right now you get a sense that he is almost directly below you. What is it planning to do right now?

Right now it is moving on to the third place of power to set up the totems and the ritualistic pieces that they need to complete the spell. How can I attract its attention? Right now he doesn't think anyone really knows he's here because the one person who seemed to be aware of him, he thinks he's sent back to where he came from. So even just interrupting him will get his full attention. But you could also… You could also go back and disturb the two previous spots that he has set up.

It seems like he would have an awareness of that. Can I use come get some to bring him out at me? Tell me what that move is all about. Come get some. You can challenge your foes to fight you alone, maybe in words or maybe just by being the biggest, baddest bastard in the team. Roll plus tough and on a 10 plus, they all go for you. On a seven to nine, they go for you mainly, but maybe one or two, two of your comrades are getting marked too. On a miss, they come for you harder than you expected.

So let me ask you, how would you use this on him, not having eyes on him? Like what would you do to get his attention wherever he is? Oh, knock down the water tower. Yeah, can I use property damage to knock down the water tower? You absolutely can. Yeah, I'm going to do that. Oh, Jesus. I turn. I turn to Jake and Tess and Megan and Kim and I'm like, I don't know how important this monument is, but don't worry, I have a plan. And I run up with the axe with TLC and I just like smash through it.

Is this a roll? You can smash your way through almost anything. This is property damage. If it's at all possible to destroy an inanimate object with the tools at your disposal, you can roll plus sharp to work out how and a 10 plus you can pulverize it, no trouble. All right, roll plus sharp, because you do have a magical axe that cleaves through stone and other things. Okay. So that's a one. And another one. And I sharp as one, so that's a three. I got snake eyes plus one is a three.

Ooh, the three-eyed snake. Wow. Oh, it would have been fine as long as they have it back up by Christmas. They hang the lights on it. And then we're on TV again at Monument Circle. You would have made the news yet again. So the group of you see Tuck, pick up the axe and just sprint at the monument. What goes wrong here, Tuck? Like, why doesn't this work? Well, Tuck's not really familiar with roads or traffic signs or traffic laws.

So he's like starting to Hulk run and then he hits the road just as it turns, just as the lights turn red, gets hit by a few cars. Pew! Like the talented Mr. Ripley. It's like Meet Joe Black. It's like the scene in Meet Joe Black. That's what I meant. That's the one. Just clobbered by a bus. Yeah. Talented Mr. Ripley is I would get killed by someone hitting me with an oar on a rowboat. And then he becomes you. Somebody was pulling a rowboat through town and they also sideswipe you.

There was a Subaru Forester that had a canoe on top of it that really did some damage to my nards. Like you got hit, flipped up and landed in the rowboat. Yeah. And then the person in the rowboat was like, get out of my rowboat. He was riding in the rowboat on top of the car. The whole thing. Don't forget I look and I'm dressed like Slash from. Oh, we haven't. Yeah. I'm going to like, I guess, run out and try to like stop traffic, like put my hands up so he doesn't just get pulverized. Yeah.

I mean, just someone kind of techening into the air stops traffic. Okay, perfect. Then I'm going to run over and like check on him. I'm like, fuck, are you okay? Yeah. Yeah. Why? I pick up his top hat and dust it off and hand it back to him as I help him to his feet. I put it on and then I lean into Jake and I was like, hey, did anybody notice that that happened? No, you look back and we're all like. No, man, I don't think anybody noticed. I think you're, I think we're cool.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Let's. Let's get out of the street. Okay, cool. Yeah. Well, he has traffic stopped. I'm like waving everyone over to get to my side of the street. Yeah. Well, there's safety. I'm just scrolling Twitter and slash gets hit by a rowboat is trending. Perel crosses the road at the crosswalk in a deep crouch with both hands extended to either side, delicately maneuvering between cars. Billy's crawling on all fours like a bear.

Trying to blend in with the creatures around him. There's a little dog about your size that is on a leash walking next to you and it gives you a nod. I give it a nod. Good evening. Rev, how far down beneath Monument Circle did it seem like this guy was? Not super far, maybe like 60 feet. Yeah, I say to everyone as we get gathered around. He's like directly below us. Like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's like 60 feet or so.

And he's already gotten to like three of these spots. He's setting items up for some sort of like spell or ritual. And he's on his way to the third one right now. He's already moving. So if we can distract him or get to one of the places he's already gotten to and like mess it up, it'll get his attention. But he thinks that the only person that knows about him got sent back. So he's working fast. Thing says, I mean, I can bend the elements in our world. I'm pretty sure I could do it here.

If this is just dirt, can I just can we plow down? I'm doing what we want to get to one of his other places. Having seen Tuck just get clobbered by three cars and a bunch of people stop and take pictures of him. Perel goes, well, there's a I don't think that the people here are used to that kind of thing. So it might draw a lot of unwanted attention. Is there somewhere more private that we could potentially bend the elements to our will? No attention is bad attention.

Well, I don't know if that's true here. Perel looks at somebody walking by with a gun. That's literally anyone. I. I mean, if he's below us, then that implies that he's probably in the sewers. Right. If we locate a manhole, we could probably sneak up on him that way rather than plowing directly through the earth. I mean, yeah, pretty much. If we just find one of the grading caps on the sidewalk, we can at least get down out of view and then move some elements and get lower down from there. OK.

To the nearest man's hole. Well, if we can. Hmm. If we can just wait. Like a minute. I think maybe I can do something and maybe have a little bit more advanced knowledge of what's going to happen that might help us out later. And I want to kneel on the ground and pull out my tarot cards and try to see through time. Yeah. And as you start to deal out your cards kneeling downtown, someone drops some change in front of you. That is a 10. All right. You get a whole three. Cool.

And I can use that later on to give any of us advantage. On a upcoming role. Cool. So is it like you see the future? It's a little bit Doctor Strangey in that I just sort of briefly see like possible iterations of the next like 24 hours of what we're about to undertake. And then I can use that information to help guide us to a more ideal outcome. Cool. In one of every of those iterations moving forward, Tuck is at a Fuddruckers. Is that a Fuddruckers doing some kind of eat as much as you can?

Yeah. Is that a Fuddruckers you can challenge? Because he's like, world's going to end anyway. So it doesn't matter if I'm in a cut phase or not. Might as well. Unfortunately, there is one where he's at Dick's. He's got the giant hat on. Yeah. Yeah. So I've run over to one of these just great. It's like big rectangular thin grates along the sidewalk. And I'm trying to heft one up because people downtown do weird shit like that all the time anyway. Yeah. No problem. No problem.

You're able to pull up one of these grates. And underneath it is a big opening in a ladder. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go. All right. I hurl myself down just straight down. I will scoop up my cards and the two dollars that I got and head over there. Tuck runs over and shimmies in. He gets stuck Winnie the Pooh style halfway and gets shoved through the rest of the way. I'm like jumping on him from up top, just trying to squash him through. Ving says, you got to lay off the wheat.

Like the gopher. Like the gopher. And then he jumps down in the hole. Like the gopher. He says that as well. Like the gopher. He's like, like my friend gopher. Who are you thinking of? Oh, yeah. Like spirit of gopher. You know gopher. Yeah. Capital G gopher. So you all find yourselves down in, once again, the sewer. You've really brought to my attention how much of a sewer theme to show we have. Oh, hey, don't talk about it like that. It's good. It's good. This is a work area.

There are a lot of electrical lines and things running down here. It is paved. You're not like standing ankle deep in water or anything. Okay. I would like to see if there's any clues around here. Yeah. So roll investigate a mystery as Billy starts to search around being one of the first ones down here. 2d6 plus sharp. Seven. All right. So you get a hold one. So you can ask one question from the list on investigate a mystery. What? What can hurt it?

So what kind of sign do you think that you see down here that lets you know how it was hurt? Did it encounter something? Did it catch on something that it wasn't expecting? Yeah. Billy's like touching the wall and tasting it. There's so many new flavors down here. And as Tuck is stuck in the grate, he could see Billy licking a sewer and he's just like, Billy, stop. He's trying to reach him. I'm finding clues. Bing is jumping on Tuck's. He's not licking the walls of the sewer. Is he? Come on.

Yeah. So Billy, as you are sniffing around and getting a taste for all of the walls and the floors down here to see what new is to be found, you do find an area where there is a little droplet of blood. You get that smell of copper. And actually what you notice is that sticking out from the wall, there is a barb of actual copper, like someone had cut a wire. Um, and then you get a little bit of blood. And left a good chunk of the metal on it. Still this, this copper wiring.

Uh, and it seems like as he was passing by, um, he leaned into it as he was doing something and it much to his surprise, penetrated his skin. Yeah. Take it with me. Okay. And show the others. How did you find this? It's just sticking out of the wall. There's blood on it. Look. Oh, I mean, I don't know how it works in your world, but like lots of things are weak to particular metals here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Yeah. Like the menders use it. Do I still kind of have that ping of that direction where I was able to determine where he was? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If I still have that kind of in my mind, then I'm just leading everyone towards that direction as we go through the sewers. Okay.

As we're walking, I want to dig into my bag of strange coins and start just like picking out the copper ones that are in here. Oh, yeah. That's what I was thinking. Maybe you got paid in pennies for your street tarot. Oh, shit. I probably. Yeah. Yeah. That's going to come in useful. I'll put them in this copper sock and we'll be all set. As we're going, do we see any more like loose wires and stuff that we might be able to strip? Why don't you roll luck? Okay.

Bro, you're talking about copper wire in downtown Indianapolis. It's been stripped and sold. You don't know. I haven't rolled luck yet. Are there any. Are there any air conditioners that nobody's gotten to yet? Six. Jake is correct. It has all been stripped out of here. Dang it. Perel is flexing his hands open and close and goes, I think I have an idea. And he finds something of some other kind of metal, like a piece of pipe or a wrench or something.

And he's really going to focus and try and transmute it into copper. This is sick. This is the first time Perel's done magic in a long time. This is the first time Perel's done magic in a long time. Tuck tells everybody. Yeah. You don't have to tell them that, man. Let's all look at him do it. It's the first time. Ving is recording this with Tuck's iPhone 13. All right. 2D6 plus weird, which his weird is actually quite low because this is not how he's used to doing magic. What's up, Periscope?

Tuck here. And my friend is doing magic for the first time in a long time. Tuck's the first person to use Periscope since 2018. The CEO of Periscope rolls off his cot in the headquarters. We got a ding. We got a ding. We're back. Unfortunately, I rolled a six. Can I help out? Yeah, absolutely. How so? I think Patrick Swayze ghosting him, helping him remember how it is to actually use magic and walking him through as he tries to do it. I don't know.

Exactly what he's going to cast, but I understand the tenets. Yeah. And you know how magic here works, too. So, yeah. Roll. Roll help out. Okay. Unchained melody plays. Perel kind of sinks into your chest. Hot. I got an eight. All right. So, yeah, that does bump Perel up to a seven. Hell yeah. Perfect. So, Perel, you're going to tell me what your effect is and then also pick a glitch and then I'll tell you how the glitch affects what you're doing.

So, the effect I'm going to choose is do one thing that is beyond. Human limitations. That being transmutation, which I understand is not a human ability. Yeah. So, this should work. I think I'm going to go with it has a problematic side effect. I think that for the moment, everything you touch turns to copper. Jake, your pants turn to copper as Perel is leaned back against you. I start to take a step as they solidify and just bang my knee against.

The inside of my own pants and fall over like somebody's tipped a statue. Oh, my God. He holds the wrench up and goes, whoa. Oh, my God. Oh, actually, that's amazing. And I want to lift up my shotgun to where all of the shells are in the little pockets on the side and say, will you touch just the red cylinders here real quick? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he touches it. And as it turns to copper, he goes. Okay. Maybe just the one or two. I don't. Really? I want to watch that again.

Ving walks up with his brass knuckles and puts them in like here. Please touch them. You can like turns his head and plugs his ears. Magic is so weird here, but oh, my God, I feel so powerful. You know, like if in my world, magic was like if we were like hoses, if wizards were like hoses connected to a cistern of magical energy, I'm like a rain catcher. Like I'm just filling up with whatever. I'm just filling up with whatever ambient energies in the air. I feel like I'm going to explode.

All right. Explode your hose at this, my friend. And then Proffers, one of the side view mirrors from the Subaru Foresters that hit him earlier. He ripped it off in retaliation. Yeah. Perel grips it, controls the shutter this time. I'm good. I wiggle my way out of my coppered pants. And stand back up in my underwear. I watch with rapt. Nobody doesn't watch with rapt. And Perel kind of flustered. Lexi goes, hey, thanks for the assist. Really. Thank you for the help there. No problem. All right.

So Megan leads you all through the sewers. What are you all doing as you're headed in that direction? Like, are you just sprinting ahead, running, trying to get there? Are you sneaking? Like, how are you traversing this sewer? I have encouraged everyone to proceed quietly and with caution and similarly pantsless. Everybody take your pants off. They make a lot of noise. He's going to hear us coming. It's not weird if we're all doing it. Done. Keep you wearing a dress. Yeah.

Thus, always pantsless. I've kind of got a tattered kilt situation going, but I'll lose that if you want. But straight up. I'm going to be real with. You, Jake. There's nothing underneath this. It's breezy under there. Yeah. Okay. I'm not mad at it. I don't know if you want this business, my friend. Billy's got some of his utility knives, like little daggers as he walks, ready to stab whatever comes. Yeah. I'm going to make sure everybody's like moving cautiously.

Like this dude stomped me and I don't want him to know we're coming. So get everybody sneaky as we go. Yeah. Yeah. Very sneaky and very just trying to like look out for danger or see if we can see this guy before he sees us. All right. So, Kim, why don't you roll? Read about situation. Eight. All right. You get a hold one. Are there any dangers we haven't noticed? Just up ahead as you are all starting to work your way through the sewers.

This whole area is lined top to bottom in cobblestones and you seem to hear him up ahead, but you don't see him right away. And then as your gaze starts to. Look around the various sides of the tunnel, you notice his shadow up ahead and above you. And very clearly, you can see that his form has changed a little bit. He is stuck to the ceiling with tentacles that are coming out from his pant legs.

His skin is purple and there are these wide gills on the side of his neck, fluttering open and close as half a dozen other tentacles come out of his sleeves, moving. Moving around, setting up the various pieces that he needs in place on the ceiling. Stop. Stop. Everyone. Stop. Everyone. Stop. Everyone. Stop. Well, you heard it. What an episode. If you want the next part of the story, you can go over to the Crit Show right now to listen to episode four. And next week.

Next week, episodes five and six. The thrilling conclusion to the Crit Show Spell or crossover will be released next Wednesday. Yeah. But right now, head over to the Crit Show feed. Links are in the show notes. Get that episode in your head. Yeah. God, I bet.! There's a ton of fun.