never forgiving brennan for this one 

This will go down as the moment the fandom stopped believing the rat grinders were a red herring

Can't wait for Buddy to meet Helio and have a moment like Kristen and go crazy

I can’t believe 4 different dogs would do a thing like this

My god, the amount of hoops a DM has to jump through to try and pull a fast one on the players is just nuts in high-level 5E.

i NEED the angry scream at the end of the preview for next weeks ep to be buddy please let my boy go apeshit on the rat grinders (i will be devastated if buddy isn’t brought back to life)

The fact they took out so many powerful monsters is insane to me

Brennan's so good. I don't for a minute think Kipperlilly was standing directly behind Buddy until Ally had Kristen eat the vulture eye and Brennan decided to reward that move with story stuff. It was probably in the plan that she was going to pull something, but Brennan was like, "Oh there's my hook in and it's cooler than the original plan" and took it.

listen buddy was nowhere near my favorite npc but my boy didn't deserve this :(

Did anyone else get a flashback of a piece of cake in hot ass pants doing what Kipperlily just did?

The devil works hard but d20 fans posting clips to RU-vid work harder

I really love the moment Kristen is like "if we don't bring him back then they fail" then everyone is just like "we should bring him back still"

Kipper Lilly Copper Kettle is a rogue - and I’ve been waiting all season for her to do rogue shit. Was thrilled she was caught red handed.

one of the wildest story twists I've ever seen in any medium

You know at least i finally understand how the "00" die works now so thats good, i guess 4:29

Kristen trying to hurl the eye back up is so funny to me. I laughed every freaking time.

So the Bad Kids were wrong about a key thing here, the rat grinders won't fail if Buddy stays dead, they move to pass/fail instead. Everything we know of the RG is that they're fine taking the easy way out, and don't care about going above and beyond. Kipper ensured she has an auto-pass, and I'm guessing the other core RG's also have plans in place to ensure they're on the passing side. I think their whole plan with Buddy was to have reason for Bobby Dawn to come in and fail Kristin in order to force the Bad Kids into doing the last stand. Once the last stand started Buddy outlived his usefulness and had to die to ensure that the Bad Kids also died in that demi-plane.

the way ally repeats "*anywhere* in the multiverse" like thats a clue

I think this just killed everyone’s theories about the Rat Grinders.

Can not wait for the Criminal Trial, where some D.A. has to talk about the vulture dimension.

As insane as this moment is, I appreciate the editors giving the audience a moment to sit on that before cutting back to the IH

i swear to god if Buddy doesn't get rezzed and have a Leave Jesus moment I will riot. Y'ALL GAVE RAHG OF ALL PEOPLE A SECOND CHANCE DO THE SAME FOR BUDDY CMOOOOON

Bobby Dawn is about to either have zero feelings because it's "all a part of Gods plan," or he's about to go full Colonel Sanders ass rage star mode.

100% hope Buddy comes back questioning helio and goes full philosophy. Kristen would either HATE it or Gurdy has competition

I literally screamed at this point. I scared my cats. I woke up my mom. I’m never going to be over this.

I have a theory that Kipperlilly is a take on Power-gamers, specifically the control freak players that need to dominate a table and demands everybody be hyper optimized. Could be the reason Lucy was murdered. She wanted to change her god and that just didnt fit the mold Kipperlilly wanted.

I was waiting for kristen to plane shift buddy to a hospital but they were the one to say "if their cleric dies they all fail"

The combination of the sound effects and the minis creates such a chilling atmosphere

This only confirms the fight between The Bad Kids & Rat Grinders will be inevitable and it’ll be EPIC!!!

i need a supercut of fig kissing all the monsters as they pass

I do wish they had Gentle Repose prepared, but fuck, who thinks of needing that when you are high enough level (with at least one rich friend) that you are used to just outright reviving

Of course Kristen’s crazy shenanigans would foil Kipperlily’s schemes.

i think whats beautiful about this clip is how it shows how committed brennan is to giving the players justice; he doesnt necessarily give them free reign but he does give them an opportunity to change the situation hes made for them with, understandably, extremely low odds of working. it gives weight to what he has set up but also acknowledges the party's efforts to undo what he has done in a way that makes sense for the situation but isnt a blatant deux ex machina

The way I audibly gasped at this part and started freaking out was insane! This season has been full of some messed up moments!

The amount of things that had to happen to make this possible is truely absurd, first The Bad Kids HAD to get the Vulture riddle right, then if Aidien didn’t move kristen to the wall with the scatter kristen wouldn’t have moved within range of buddy to be able to see shit, then kristen had to use the eye of the vulture king *using an action in a very dangerous combat* to be able to see this, Honestly I really think Brennan had no clue whatsoever that this could happen.

I was watching this while working and I audibly gasped SO LOUD

literally shaking and crying rn thats my fucking boy

Why never forgiving Brennan? This is great storytelling.

My reaction was identical to Siobhan's lol i was playing a video game while watching this episode and I fully stopped to turn all of my attention to the show, mouth agape

The worst part is that was technically a reward for Amy, who had a free moment where they decided to give Kristen Truesight for no reason other than it couldn't hurt and they could do it, which let them catch Copperkettle out before they could do some much nastier shit (according to Brennan)

So excited to see the demise of Aguefort’s Rachel Berry at the end of this season

I was having such a good time before this happened ;_;

Vultures yea

Buddy might convert

That background waving is trippy

"Critically important... the Ochre Jellies move another 40 feet." Important to inject some levity into the tense realisation that the dude assigned to not let them die is dead.

This morning I woke up and turned on RU-vid, and this video came up. I hadn't watched the episode yet, so I didn't click it, but autoplay started and I saw the subtitles: So with no further context, I assume that's what this video was about, and quickly turn it off so I don't spoil anything else. I spent the whole day kinda annoyed about having a twist spoiled before I had the chance to watch the episode. Then I actually watched it, and - well.

the journey from Freshman Year Kristen to Junior Year Kristen cannot be overstated

5:53-the crossbow was definily loaded with rage crystals somehow right? kipperlily was gonna shoot the monsters to make them more dangerous? or maybe shoot the bad kids so they couldn't be revived? or both?

could you clip Aguefort's pre-recorded speech at the end? I love that deranged man

Gentle repose

legitimately felt sick when this happened

See, the Vulture dimension rules.

I loved Buddy:(

I went absolutely wild at this moment. I knew Buddy was a patsy, but I never expected this!!! Holy fuck!

This is great just to understand the 100 dice

Um, Actually: Revivify is 300 gold pieces of diamonds, not 3000, Brennan Lee Mulligan made a mistake by an order of magnitude. Or did he? 👀🤔

Made me physically ill when it happened

It was a dope moment

The way I was cheering and then the way my stomach *dropped* - jesus christ 😭😭😭 i still think the bad kids have the advantage at the moment, but we KNOW kipperlilys got contingencies on contingencies in the bag.

That, "They're magical guts--" and the cutoff is killer. 😂

man.. that's a foul play and cant wait they get busted on next episode

im still holding onto hope for Oisin, my guess is that he witnessesed what she did to Buddy and pulled her out of these out of shock. Regarding her though, either Keplerlabia Cupertino is being influenced or possessed by Ankarna, or she is just that fucking evil.

NEVER forgiving him

No Oisin! I thought you had potential!

This is exactly what he did in season 1

thats a bit of railroading

They better bring him back!!!

It just occurred to me... When I first saw this, I thought it was a little cheap that Brennan would instant-kill a level character to avoid any Spare the Dying shenanigans, but now I don't think it was a railroad: Daisydukes Pocketpeaking actually auto-crited and snuck attacked this child so hard that she actually destroyed him despite him being presumably as beefed as the rest of the Rat Grinders.

I'll never forgive Mulligan for impersonating a good GM.

diabolical

Come on oishin!

Kiperlilly's fucking psycho. Tho the preview for next ep is definitely interesting.

Brutal

so wrong for this, but the storytelling is so good

Leave it to Brennan to kill the golden retriever npc

so the spell they wanted was gentle repose instead of spare the dying

I'm really curious what Bobby Dawn will do next episode. Did he sign off on having his own grandson murdered? Or will this be the end of whatever alliance he had with the Rat Grinders?

not the slow close up on Ally's face, i dont even know what that face is?? trying to throw up?? resigning themselves to having to throw up? the horror of having swallowed a rotten birds eye finally sinking in?? 😂

I think Kipperlilly is fully out for herself. She already has an instant A+ for finding the Rogue teacher, so it doesn’t matter what happens to the rest of the group. She does not care what happens to any of them, she only keeps them around if they’re useful. Full girlie psychopath.

Me over here wondering why their revivify cost 3,000gp instead of 300gp as is 5e RAW. I can't tell if their revivify is just really expensive or if he made a mistake. Either way, she wouldn't have been able to pull it out of the jacket, but it just stuck in my mind.

Me drawing a line through all my Gay Buddy Dawn headcannons...

I *really* wanna know why Kipperlily hates the Bad Kids so much, cause this feels like it's going way beyond 'academic fairness' or whatever

I'm a bit concerned that Buddy might be back and have been given or been on the receiving end of devil's honey to be led to believe that The Bad Kids killed him instead of The Rat Grinders.

DM trying their best to have a story moment while the players desperately try to prevent it. Classic D&D.

Wait so why did the divine intervention immediately fail with Ally rolling that 7? I've anyways understood the single-digit D10 to be the ones digit

to this day i still don't understand d100's 😅

I actually really liked Buddy.

ohhhh i get it. She wanted to kill Gavin and nobody had revivify gems thanks to her so she could fail the bad kids

Denim

I mean it's good for the plot and whatever but even for me as a DnD layman it makes no sense rules wise right? At the beginning of Kristen's turn, as a reaction to being spotted: Kipperlilly who had a readied action to shoot the judge (after an unknown trigger) changed her action to instantly kill Buddy outright with a melee sneak attack instead (so damage twice as high as his max hp right?). No DM would allow their players to pull something like that. "Sorry you need to specify the action and the trigger on your turn. You cant just change the target and action you have readied."

Weirdly, I don't think Oisin was in on this. I don't know how that's possible, but we know that Kipperlily was protective of him and didn't want him exposed to getting illegal magic items, so she had Aelwyn do it. I just don't see why she'd keep him protected from a smaller crime and bring him in on a full murder of their own teammate. i don't know if all the Rat Grinders are as nasty as Kipperlily, i think they're at varying levels of nasty

My theory is Oishin didnt approve / know Kipperlily killing buddy and just say NOPE we are out of here. Im inhaling so much copium on this one I do believe Oishin is a good guy (maybe he took some devils honey to think Kipperlily is a good person?)

Who?

1) they may have also taken the last stand prior to this so the rat grinders so they may already pass their classes even if buddy dies. Thems the rules. They all pass then the grades are submitted and they’re done they don’t even need to go to classes anymore technically. Was it murder sure was it expulsion worthy na. 2) buddy loves Helio so he probably will just go to Helios heaven and do what normally happens to his followers - meander around corn or Kumbaya/Helio summer camp shit 3) Christian was the ‘Chosen Prodigal whatever Cleric’ so her experience was more personal and direct communication with the god. (Think about it this way other party members have died right and when they go to hell or when they die and go to heaven they just experience a very wack hell/heaven/dad? experience. - Gorgug got a bunch of weird trees with razor blade leaves. No god in sight nobody to explain what happened when he was dead only when he came back. Same thing with Riz. Christian talked to Helio because that’s her whole thing Bobby might be a cleric too but he wasn’t the official prodigy kid so chances are he doesn’t actually meet Helio his powers are more from the belief that Helio exists - not that him and Helio have a deep personal connection) If he does meet Helio I think it will be interesting how he gaslights himself into thinking Helio was cool or nice because that’s his god and he saw his god even if meeting your hero’s doesn’t always go as you plan there’s still gods plan - ya? Christian wasn’t truely gaslighted into loving Helio she had a bunch of faith but was skeptical as hell of all of it. So meeting her hero and being disappointed was a huge deal for her, not everyone is gonna have that same experience.

And here I was thinking Oisin might actually be a decent guy. :(

After killing Buddy, Is it possible that Kipperlily killed the rouge teacher too?? Riz discovered she is a ghost. Did kipperlily kill her so no-one else could find her??

Is this the first non-Gillear familial death that the Bad Kids have had in the hands of their enemies?

Considering the rat grinders are XP grinding, they have limited real battle experience. They don't fight big scary monsters. The probably were struggling hard or lost The Last Stand. THEY are the rats being grinded, now.

No offense, I would stop being his player

This is a prime example of why they should move away from 5e. It’s not a fiction first game, and when you try to do things like this the players start to look at the mechanics to see what they can do and you end up having to say “Oh yeah the mechanic that completely solves this narrative twist is…gone somehow.” It’s very unsatisfying and D20 has a loyal enough audience that it can 100% branch out.