Ep. 58: Lunar Interlude V - Reunion Tour - Part One

"Like Chilean miners rising, our comfy casual champion has returned. What other twists await us in... The Adventure Zone?"

Synopsis
''Our heroes' party has just undergone a fairly shocking expansion. They're now tasked with an infiltration mission that hits close to home. As the pieces move into place for the endgame, what do our heroes hope to find -- and where do their allegiances lie? Merle goes along for the ride. Magnus faces a difficult decision. Taako makes one last deal.''

The Tres Horny Boys have just discovered that the Red Robe whose been stalking them for most of the campaign is actually their old companion, Barry Bluejeans, who was originally thought to be dead. But before we delve into that plot twist, we need some perspective.

Intermission 1

Decades ago, in a wheatfield on the outskirts of Phandalin, Barry Bluejeans crashes into the earth and rises as a red spectre. He takes a moment to collect himself, and retrieves some blood off his fallen from lying before him.

A few months after this incident, Barry is at an black market auction in the hopes that they'll be selling Grand Relics, but is unsuccessful in finding any. Instead he buys several pods that, when fed the organic matter of someone, can regrow them. As he walks out, he feels a chill wind move through him, like it has many times before.Barry deduces that him being in his lich form for too long is most likely the reason he's been detected by this mysterious woman, and he finds a crypt that he can camp out in. After ridding the chambers of its goblin residents, he spends the next month setting up his equipment, warding the crypt from magical detection, researching the relics whereabouts, and waiting for his body to grow back in the pods he bought. As Barry triangulatea the locations of the Relics on his map, he reminisces about his friends, knowing that none of them can remember him. It's months later now, and a now alive Barry, under the instructions of his lich counterpart, is surveying the foothills of Phandalin in the hopes of finding Lup's location. Unfortunately, while climbing a particularly treacherous craggy incline, he loses his grip and falls to his death, setting him back a couple more months. After a couple more cycles of locating, searching, and dying, Barry finds out that a dwarf named Gundren Rockseeker is in need of a bodyguard for his quest to Wave Echo Cave, an ancient dwarven vault containing artifacts of immeasurable power and also where Lup hid the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet. Before becoming human again, he leaves a command for his alive self to find Gundren and to stick with him no matter what it takes. End Intermission 1

END OF EPISODE!

Featured NPCs

 * Avi
 * Carey Fangbattle
 * Killian
 * NO-3113
 * Garfield the Deals Warlock
 * Davenport
 * Barry Bluejeans
 * Kravitz

Featured Music

 * Reunion Tour

Featured Locations

 * Bureau of Balance
 * Fantasy Costco

Quotes
"I'm a weenie boy" - Garfield the Deals Warlock