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Wherein the party explores Brandath Crypt in the City of the Dead! Also some planning/discussion about where to go next!

We pay for tavern renovations and hire some staff! We investigate missing children on a whirlwind tour of windmills! We fight Asmodeus worshipers in their loft apartment! We ambush the Zhentarim by one of their safehouses and find a Xanathar Guild member and his valuable goldfish! We encounter a notorious ghost and Manu pays with 30 years of his life! 

After a recap of the between-session bluebooking and a discussion of financial options, the crew (minus Grimm, out on a date) decide to investigate an underground gladiator competition Manu has heard about, which turns out to be run by the Xanathar Thieves' Guild!  Manu, Dax, and Baldr fight for their lives and (barely) defeat an Orog, a drow, and a bugbear!  They nearly pull off a secon...

Oh no! Our recording failed partway through, so we have a few segments recorded before game start and about half an hour of the gameplay, then Dave read's Jared's excellent session notes so you don't lose the thread.  Sorry listeners, we'll do better! Everyone joins at least one faction and our heroes meet a whole ton of new NPCs as they look to fix up Trollskull Manor, meet the neighbors, and fig...

We dive back into the sewers and infiltrate the Xanathar Thieves' Guild hideout! We make friends with a goblin ratcatcher, fight a gray ooze, beat up some thugs, catch sight of a terrifying mind flayer, kill a half-orc wizard, and rescue floon! We return Floon to Volo, Renaer's locket to him, and the stolen goods to the watchpost! Back at the Yawning Portal, Baldr sings us a drinking song about Ep...

We go on an epic, Waterdeep-spanning pub crawl! We sing the song of the Yawning Portal (37:00)! We help Durnan with a troll problem and get a job offer from a drunken famous author to find his missing boyfriend! Several pubs later, we tangle with some kenku and Manu gets his first official case solved for the Watch! We explore the nasty sewers of Waterdeep and fight a mini-beholder! 

Dave takes over GMing, and forces our heroes to try a new way of making up characters together! Jared's dutybound half-aquatic elf monk solves crimes for the city watch, and is a former rival of John's tiefling bardic scholar scoundrel, who grew up with Rob's hardass half-drow wizard, who is the illegitimate half-brother of Mikey's human noble paladin zealot, who employs Mike's aasimar rogue softi...

We and our minions face off against the Soulmonger, an Atropal, and finally the archlich Acererak himself! We use the word 'strut' more than we expected to! We nearly lose our minotaur several times! We discover that Dyrax the Evoker is the best counterspeller in the universe! Lothar finally sticks to a plan! We free a captive librarian and restore peace and resurrectability to the Forgotten Realm...

We raid the tomb of Shagambi and get Cloudchaser re-possessed! We all get polymorphed into animals and some of us get sucked into an interdimensional mirror! Our party grows even more when we release all the mirror's captives! We steal the Black Opal Crown and find the Level 4 key!  We head down to Level 5 and bid a sad farewell to our unicorn bunny Al Mirage! Amaranth accidentally gets naked...

We get caught in some traps and almost die! We solve the tombs of I'jin and Unkh! We fight a whole ton of minotaur skeletons! We keep finding crystal eyes but don't know why! We think we find the last corpse of the Company of the Yellow Banner!  

We go up from level 5 to level 2, then level 1, then level 3, all in pursuit of juuuuust the right trickster gods to possess us!  Jorgrim gets possessed by Moa the Jaculi and must be truthful and kind! Amaranth gets possessed by Papazotl the Eblis and bosses everyone around (no change there)!  We solve a few more rooms, free a Gray Slaad from his prison and make him join the party, and t...

We meet the head custodian Mr. Withers and file a grievance! We take the janitors' stairs down to level 5, stopping only for brief shenanigans! We explore a lake with many cogs! We almost get run over by a steamroller! We play with the controls, make some shambling mound buddies, and get into  some fights with demons who live in furniture! 

We fight the tomb-dwarves and their dark creation! We play with a metal-attracting statue and strongly avoid drinking from the fountain! We go back downstairs for a short rest in the workshop!

We start down the grand stairway but get distracted!  We ask a tomb dwarf about the details of dungeon maintenance! We scry a little bit and start giving ourselves an unauthorized behind-the-scenes tour!

We have a lot of people in our party! Some of us start exploring the dungeon and find the tomb of Oba'laka, where we get into some mask shenanigans and Cloudchaser adopts a risky strategy that gets him into a situation where he now has to be risk-averse... Tomb of the Nine Gods part 1 of ?

We return to D&D in Chult!  We strike a deal with the Kobolds and then with the Red Wizards! We acquire the Cube of Obalaka! We use our charmed wizard to help us flood the yuan-ti complex with a well-placed Wall of Stone! We finally meet Ras Nsi and get the last cube and enter.... THE TOMB OF ANNIHILATION!

Not a play session! After playing Fiasco, we chat about what's next in our Chult campaign, what might come afterwards, and how we might improve our fun together.  Kind of a behind-the-scenes look at what's going on in the minds of these four players.

And now for something completely different! With our GM out of town, we play a quick game of Fiasco set in the Old West! The McLinty brothers hate each other! Niles and Aideen just got married and its not gonna last! Everyone lies and double-crosses each other! We make terrible plans! Some of us get shot!

We shoot kobolds out of the sky! We conquer the shrine of the disco-snail Unkh! We tangle with some Red Wizards! We turn one into a turtle and then Awaken it! We capture their nerd and make him work for us! We fixed our audio issue from last time so now it doesn't sound like you're in Dave's skull!

We reluctantly rescue some folks who crashed a skyship! We make it to Omu and fight gargoyles for the right to enter by the wrong way! We lay claim to an island in a pool of lava! We get sniped at and have an epic battle against a single cat dude!

Our first intentional podcast - we record intros for some of the characters! We mercilessly slaughter a colony of pterafolk with SWAT-like precision! We ask the naga oracle at Orolunga every possible question! So much exposition! We awaken Nicolaus and Mannfred, quetzalcouatlus(es) with silly German accents! We fly to the Heart of Ubtao and find somebody we're actually afraid to attack!

We have bizarre dreams! We fight zombies and meet Cloudchaser the Goliath! We fix a bad drainage situation and declare ourselves heroes! We meet another frost giant and Cloudchaser kinda wants to get with her! We ascend to Mbala to take in the lovely views, and destroy its only resident! We sing a lot of songs to each other about it!

We check in with the Emerald Enclave and Flaming Fist but decide we work for neither! We exchange a bloody toenail with some frost giants Jared avoids naming! We discover the ruins of Camp Righteous and get a jug of infinite mayonnaise! We toast some goblins! We awaken an Al-miraj!