Podbit · Pardon My Take
Wayne the Bard grabbed Manshoon's spellbook, triggering alarms and summoning the villain himself. Manshoon looked around the room and said he knew one of them — Loud Trainwind. He revealed himself as his father, cast out long ago, and invited him to join and rule Waterdeep. Big Cat accepted.
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The heist descends into glorious chaos. Greg rides his giant moth onto the bridge and lances Sidra, the scarred ex-marine guard captain who rolls a 19/20 on attractiveness. She holds her own, dealing sustained damage to Greg. Upstairs, Loud Trainwind hurls Erlich through two floors of the library using a reckless rage throw, landing him next to the magic circle — but a spectator eyeball monster paralyzes Erlich with a white beam and then hits Loud Trainwind with a confusion beam, causing him to attack his own teammates. Wayne the bard shoots a Fireball into the room, killing all four flying snakes but dealing 22 fire damage to the paralyzed Erlich and Loud Trainwind, then curses Erlich with illiteracy to prevent him from reading the spellbook. Silent Trainwind falls three stories into the garbage when the rope breaks, crashing onto the plague needle but avoiding injection by a dice roll. After group healing from Silent Trainwind and Greg's paladin smites bringing the Spectator to 2 hp, Wayne runs up the stairs, rolls a dirty 20 on Arcana, and opens the pocket dimension portal to claim Manshoon's spellbook.
Hank rolled a natural 20 on persuasion, earning free tuition to Blackstaff Academy wizard school and one question about Lord Manshoon. He asked about the villain's motivation — money — something everyone already knew from the Shredder-looking portrait.
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Greg the Paladin trapped the halfling chef Manafrit Cherryport in a Compelled Duel, then intimidated him into surrendering. As punishment, Greg cut off his ring hand to claim the ring controlling the tower's force field.
During his information-gathering turn, Zach's character Silent Trainwind stopped at a basement plague dealer in the Dock District and paid full price for a syringe of the deadliest magical virus available. He later accidentally released it into the city via a rat.
Out of options and too dumb to ask for directions, Loud Trainwind raged, then hurled Erlich (his gnome half-brother) up through three floors of the outer tower. He crashed through the library ceiling and landed next to the magic circle housing Manshoon's spellbook.
PFT's bard Wayne cast Fireball in the room, killing all four flying snakes but dealing 22 points of fire damage to the already-paralyzed Erlich. Then, to ensure Hank couldn't use the spellbook, Wayne cast Bestow Curse to make Erlich permanently illiterate.
Robby Hoffman has never bought a depreciating car. She flipped a $3,600 Toyota Corolla into a $6,000 sale, used that for a Cayman, flipped it for $18,000, and bought her dream 2001 Porsche 911 for a net $10,000.
Ryan carries the Sig P365 for daily carry and a suppressed .300 Blackout rifle at home — specifically because green-tip .223 flies through human bodies and walls, risking his kids' rooms. Strickland carries the Sig P365 AXG and a PSA AR-15 in .223. They debate why .300 Blackout matters for home defense and mock Staccato owners in equal measure.
Bobby never checks a bag — for any trip, including Australia. His secret: one pair of raw denim jeans (to develop a fade), sardine cans as in-flight snacks, and a Klingon hunting knife on his keychain. Andrew questions everything. Jimmy suggests he just check a bag for two weeks.
The crew drafts their Mount Rushmore of spoon foods. Ice cream goes first overall, soup goes second, and PFT shockingly passes on cereal to take gelato (then mashed potatoes), letting Hank and Zach steal cereal in the third round — a mistake PFT immediately regrets.
At 14, Achatz's father bought a disassembled 1970 GTO for $1,400 and spent two years rebuilding it with his son using the factory manual. The project taught Grant hands-on problem-solving — the same obsessive attention to how things are put together that would later define his kitchen.
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Sony stopping physical disc production sounds alarming, but Patrick Beja points to PC gaming as the test case: the platform went fully digital via Steam, the used game market disappeared, and yet games are cheaper in real terms than they were 20 years ago thanks to constant sales. The real fight should be for digital consumer rights, not physical media.
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