This is Episode 104 of Dice, Camera, Action.
Summary
Episode 104 - Homecoming
The Party
(Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander
(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer
(ProJared) Diath - Human Rogue
(Brooks Donahue) Sister Narae - Human Monk
The Second Wave
The kids hid in Evelyn's room, which has a big wall hanging that says "Live, Love, Laugh, Lathander" bought from Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue.
Tulip says there were 24 bugbears and goblins, along with some beholders. That was the first wave.
Tulip calls down and tries to call off the second wave. The group can hear music. Tulip says that that sound is Scareth playing the pipes. She'll be sending up rats and monsters. Out of the hole emerges one of those trash-shambling mounds, like the one they fought in the theater not long ago.
Narae tells the group they might want to run. She runs up to the mound and attacks it.
Hands come up through the floor. Green, clawed hands grab Strix and pull at her. She is grappled by it inside a zone of magical darkness. Another one grabs and pulls down Evelyn, too. They hear Naska's voice urging someone to dispel the darkness.
Evelyn swipes at it with the Heart of Spinelli. Strix turns her staff into a pan and casts green flame blade on it.
These trolls have barrels of smoke powder trapped to their backs! There's a massive explosion. Everyone in the taproom is affected by the explosion. Narae is blown out through one of the front windows and lands at the foot of Lance the donkey.
Diath looks down into the basement/pit/hole. He sees twitching troll parts and troll arms crawling around. Evelyn and Strix are OK. He still hears the music. It's from a pipe or flute. Diath sets the troll arms on fire. They burn and are no longer moving.
He checks the structural integrity of the house. He sees that there is a hole where the spiral staircase normally sits.
The kids are upstairs in Evelyn's bedroom. They felt the blast shake the entire house. Simon starts setting a tripwire at the door. Jenks is jumping on Evelyn's bed. They consider jumping out the window but ultimately decide against it.
Negotiations
Back downstairs, Naska steps out of the wreckage. He sees Evelyn and Strix in the pit. Behind him is an undead ogre holding a fishing pole. Hanging from it is a beholder. It has no mouth and magical lights coming from its eyestalks. Strix wonders if it is a scrying device for the Xanathar.
The papier-mâché beholder looks at Paultin. Evelyn calls out to Naska, who claims he doesn't know her.
A magic mouth appears on it. It says, "Take a bite and feed, satisfaction guaranteed."
Evelyn tries to ask Naska if he's a double agent without saying that exactly. Naska tells her she must pay a terrible price. She can tell he's trying to hide the fact that he was friends with the group from his allies.
Diath draws both Gutter and Moonsplinter. He jumps down, puts a blade at Naska's back, and tells him to call them off. Naska nervously says he should talk to the Xanathar. Evelyn awkwardly says that Naska is just an underling enforcer, and that he should deal with the boss.
Diath says that they should call off the goons. He knows what they want, and he can help them get it. Diath tells them leave him alone, and he can feed them the information they need.
The garbage monster leaps into the hole and lands on Strix. She is engulfed.
The kids cross the hall. The floor has weakened. Nat falls through the floor and lands in the basement near Evelyn.
A neighbor across the square starts shouting, "What is going on over there!?"
Outside, Narae sees the kids and climbs up into the hallway. Squiddly shoots an arrow at her, but Narae catches it. Waffles comes out of a door and charges the monk. Jenks calls out to Waffles, and the owlbear stops charging. Narae shadow steps down to the basement to try to tend to Nat.
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