Ch.3 - The Investigation | Roll for InitiaGive

[@RenegadeScienceTeacher]

We've already raised over $5,000 before we even released episode 3*! You guys are incredible! $50k is our goal and, at this rate, we'll SMASH it before the end of the series! Thank you all so much for watching and supporting Doctors Without Borders! *including the Tiltify fundraiser in the description.

[@FNPetersen]

I don't have much money, and I have many debts to pay, but I gave what I could for the first episode. It's the first donation I've given in years. I didn't contribute much, and I probably won't be able to contribute more. But know that I love this series, and I gave what I could.

[@MdSteel7]

Doctors Without Borders hired terrorists in Gaza. Look it up on Google!

[@JLocke0113]

1:16:29 "We're all feeling ergot poisoning, yeah?" The agreement that Forest is a nerd for knowing this is hilarious.

[@MyRegularNameWasTaken]

24:11 "I was the one that was standing there, getting hit." "Were you standing?" Savage. I've never heard Forrest get roasted this hard

[@13shadowwolf]

He was standing, up until he fell down. If he hadn't soaked those hits, then she would have gone down.

[@Bugg...0_o]

50:31 I really thought Forrest was about to spark off an "Eat the rich" moment in town, omg!

[@keirawillow]

can't believe it took 1:11:00 before anyone mentioned the absence of our dearest eloise/ginny

[@darryldouglas6004]

Yeah that’s what I’ve been looking for. This is bullshit that they didn’t address it right away.

[@CoffeeIsRequired._.]

Please make this an ongoing thing. I love listening to this so much.

[@RenegadeScienceTeacher]

There's plenty more to watch! Not only are there 14 episodes in this series, but if we reach our goal of raising $50k, we'll shoot season 2!

[@lovelyqueerking]

Is there a deadline for this goal?? ​@@RenegadeScienceTeacher

[@FNPetersen]

55:25 smashed like for "bustin a waz." To be sure it's ridiculous and I've never heard such a thing, but I love it. And the algorithm can use the likes and comment.

[@Pooknottin]

It's common slang in Yorkshire. Don't know where he got it from, but I heartily approve. Been using that since I were but nipper. Aye.

[@Bugg...0_o]

@Pooknottin I was also thinking "where on earth did he get that from?!" Forrest, afaik, is an Okie like me. (You might not think it from his accent, lol. Very mild comparatably.) I've never in my nearly 40 years of life ever once heard that phrase, not only here, but anywhere. 😂

[@mamazeta906]

I died laughing more times than Dr. Vindeca last episode, seriously this series is so good!! Amelia has the best interactions, they are absolutely hilarious.

[@elisiataylor]

Totally binging this series all day!

[@DataSoong101]

I've never been into role playing games, but this is awsome. I clicked on the first episode in passing, it was a very good decision.

[@catbox1677]

The editing at the end was very cute. Big fan of the editors

[@RenegadeScienceTeacher]

Thank you so much!

[@Tweepx]

Absolutely obsessed with this series!!

[@ShardTabletop]

Drop a thumbs up if you BUSTED A HOT A WAZZ while watching this episode.

[@FNPetersen]

Several, as I'm diabetic and I was also drinking. Having a disease that was literally initially defined by excessive thirst and urination and also consuming a diruetic, I certainly busted a hot waz more than once.

[@q.is.tir3d]

god that's the most cursed thing i've ever heard in my life 💀

[@yosefzanerva806]

I absolutely love Mayor Baxter's vibe! The deep voice, the drama and flair, the eccentricity! I can’t get enough of it! Love from Israel!❤️🇮🇱

[@thatgut2375]

The guy doing the impure destruction sounds like the plague doctor SCP-049

[@DracoJ]

Im getting "PESTILENCE" "I AM THE CURE" vibes from this impurity business.

[@Mirl-ev5yr]

I'm really looking forward to learning more about Dr. Eisenbud. Not sure how widely known he is, but there was this german surgeon Johann Eisenbarth (or Eysenbart, both are correct as far as I know) in the 1770s. He supposedly was quite an accomplished doctor and used some pretty good techniques. However today he is mostly used as a shorthand for being pompous and an overall quack, at least where I'm from. There is a drinkingsong we learned at shool (as you should im Bavaria) that goes along the lines of: I'm Dr. Eisenbarth I'm treating my patients in my own ways I can make the blind walk and the lame see During the song there are a lot of other examples of him using questionable methods. I'm stoked to find out if Dr.Eisenbud has similar reputation or "questionable" methods! Ilove this series so much!

[@MartynDerg]

THE PLOT THICKENS AS DOES A BALL OF DOUGH WHEN LEFT TO PROOF

[@Whatstheteaj]

41:18 the music was perfectly timed to the "you're Ritha" moment 41:45 I'm just here fopr some books

[@JosefDerKaiser]

This episode made me laugh so hard. Starting to love this group. Them getting so damn hung up on that damn bread hahaha. I mean it does solve a real problem for the town but, its such a tangent.

[@TrolletAmok]

I might be ruined by RPG's, but while the players here is healing, talking, investigating after the battle - my first action would be "Can I loot the bodies?"

[@magmati55]

right in time after my histology practical exam. It is so hot that a hellish rebuke would probbably be colder.

[@PeaceLoveAndGuns]

Holy shit, busted a hawt whaz at the unicorn bit at the end. Simply GLORIOUS, Forrest!

[@mobiusd9885]

Bread used as a weapon...are we talking about Dwarven battle bread?

[@q.is.tir3d]

:0 i didnt see the bread thing coming At All, holy shit!! that's such a cool little piece of the mystery of this fucked up town!!

[@nagranoth_]

Never played Baldur's Gate (2 I think), I presume? There it was priests blessing people to fight a plague, but they were actually casting curses causing it. With the emphasis on the bread being distributed it's the very first thing I was suspicious about from episode 1.

[@mobiusd9885]

Congratulations on raising money for Doctors Without Borders.

[@Testbug-dy6tj]

Doctors without Borders support hamas with 1.3 million annually. Recently israel released footage and pics of a DwB staffer wearing hamas uniform, and built rockets for them. Doctors without Borders is no different then UNRWA. I can't support them, they need to make changes.

[@myku1182]

24:16 love to see this animated

[@ClementiasQuests]

The church demands a fist?👊🏼. Thank you for that

[@cbilici]

Oh my god it was the SPOILER this whole time!

[@doccerebrum5449]

Lovely how they kept piling on with the editing work at the end 😂

[@Deioth]

Forrest, how proud are you that you got to use "loquacious" in a sentence? lmao

[@JesseJerdak]

Let’s gooo!!!

[@azhdarchidae66]

ooh mysterious

[@Pooknottin]

So funny, I almost busted a wazz. Also, don't worry, I got the ergot vibe too.

[@werwurm]

This is all really exciting, but I am a bit of a D&D noob. I have a question regarding what transpired in the last episode. Because it may be a bit of a spoiler if you have not seen episode 2 yet, I'll add a few blank lines... Ritha Janis received damage while incapacitated, and therefore, failed a death saving throw. Why is she still alive? What did I miss? Please, someone explain. I pledge a $20 donation to the fundraiser for an explanation.

[@RenegadeScienceTeacher]

The short answer is that you have to fail 3 death saving throws to actually die, similarly to how you have to pass 3 to become "stable". There are a few other rules that may go into it, depending on the situation, but that's the most important thing here.

[@werwurm]

​@@RenegadeScienceTeacher Thank you, Forrest! That clears things up for me. And I made my donation as promised. Thanks for doing all of this!

[@annoyingmosquito8372]

EVIL BREAD!!!

[@johanniballecter]

Vague spoilers for the bbeg: In German, ergot is called Mutterkorn which translates to 'mother kernel' and in hindsight, it is very funny to me how well that fits.

[@CoffeeIsRequired._.]

Why is this storyline reminding me of real life America right now?

[@emrekipmen]

3 ladies in this episode. One of them is dagger, one is a sword and one is sledgehammer... Guess which is which...

[@dogeatburrito]

why are 2 people waiting, this is in 6 days

[@evancampbell5019]

They don’t want to miss it

[@NothingPicksLocks]

I'm literally busting a wazz right now. Not kidding I'm peeing lol that couldn't have been more convenient.

[@Mike-yr1sm]

Weaponizing bread.....interesting

[@Bearmetal13]

Does anyone know if it is just sales from Tales of the Valiant stuff or is it anything sold from Kobalt Press? It looks like the Tales books are presale but always glad to buy some more ttrpg books if it is contributing to a great cause.

[@Cavatica]

we're using the Tales of the Valiant system, and mostly Tales of the Valiant spells, but Kobold let us pull from their whole library to build our characters. :)

[@TheRealBrit]

I dont think the spell "as you were" is supposed to confer life back back to a dead creature ala "speak with dead" its just supposed to make them LOOK not dead. So they would appear to be asleep but would be unable to speak or be woken etc because theyre still dead. Regardless i think treating it as speak with dead for this one occastion is fine.

[@diebosseyyy4904]

Im so confused. When Gwen read the bread it told her nothing, but to Circe it reads kind of weapon-y? Thing is, it probably shouldn't read as a weapon to either of them, since they are reading just this very piece of bread specifically, and not the bread in general. So if it was never given to anyone with the intention of doing harm, it would probably not qualify as a weapon? Very confusing also because the father guy seems like he is innocent, so like, who is doing this? Anyway, good cliffhanger I guess. Will Ginny Di be back next episode?

[@Mirl-ev5yr]

I was wondering about that too - but I'm really not sure: is it THE SAME piece of bread? I was thinking that there are different sources of bread around town and that Gwen and Circe tested different ones? Perhaps one is tainted, the other one isn't? But I'm also not so sure about the father. After all, we've lost one member already after she went with him.

[@diebosseyyy4904]

@@Mirl-ev5yr I think it's the same. Gwen had a loaf of bread, and pulled off a part of it to feed the crows. The crows did not eat it, so it ends up being the very same piece that Amber finds (and also doesn't eat) and Circe picks up. I guess the difference could be that now after Gwen tried to feed it to the crows, it is more of a weapon, because she was already suspecting that it was harmful. But really I'm just probably overthinking this. Gwen probably didn't find out the weapon thing because she was not specifically looking for it, but Circe was. It's just confusing to me because as a player, I would have never even considered doing the same thing another character has already done (that wasn't a fail) and expecting something different.

[@Mirl-ev5yr]

​@diebosseyyy4904 good theory, that it wasn't a weapon until it was presented to the birds, yet the father did give it to Gwen first, meant for consumption. Even if one presumes the father doesn't know the bread is harmful, Gwen didn't give it to the birds with bad intentions either. Although I thought part of the spell was, that one can not ask specifics, it might show different things to different people? Perhaps now it is me overthinking things. Nevertheless might I add: Eloise is the only character I can think of, who supposedly ate some of this bread at breakfast before the fight. And than was "sent to the fold" by the father later? Doesn't that imply she's not here anymore? Or did I get that one wrong? Maybe it's just lingering paranoia from our last campaign. 😅

[@diebosseyyy4904]

​@@Mirl-ev5yr Azad I think also spent the night at the church and had breakfast there in the morning? Also, he was with them when the weird rebirth thing was happening. I guess either both Azad and the father are evil, or neither. With Eloise I interpreted the whole thing more like Ginny Di not having time for this recording session, so they invented an in-universe explanation why she's gone, and that's that she just wandered off, which is then also why no player character is concerned or looking for her, because they all know it's just because Ginny isn't available, and Eloise will reappear when Ginny returns. But I'm not sure about that at all. Like, maybe Ginny doesn't have time for this campaign at all anymore, so they killed her character off. Maybe Eloise died in the sketchy part of town, and we will later find her body. Or maybe she did die in the rebirth thing, and Azad and the father are both covering it up. Or maybe the rebirth thing makes you an evil fanatic, so maybe she's still around but on the bad side now. So that's why I wanted to know if Ginny will be back. But mostly because I'm really only here for her so I really hope she returns. She made for such fun roleplay, too! (Edit: outfit changes suggest that two episodes make up one recording session, so Ginny will be gone for the next episode for sure, but I guess I'll find out if she is back in episode 5? Also, do we think this is all prerecorded and the whole campaign is completely done irl? Ginny mentioned it in a few videos as just a sidenote, and I think it was in past tense.)

[@Cavatica]

the difference is that Gwen wasn't looking for anything SPECIFIC when she analyzed the bread, whereas Kirke (hi, that's me!) was specifically looking to see if it had ever been used to do violence, where "violence" in her mind means "any act intended to cause harm." and alas, Ginny Di was just our special guest for the first two episodes!

[@MsBunnyBrains]

[@ShadowWalkyr]

Wait . . . are you telling me it's pronounced "ergot" and not "ergot"?

[@StephenBradley2317]

When the fuck do you have time to do ANY of this????

[@seangilmore3901]

Evolution is a myth. If Evolution is real, why don't you see random mutations today?

[@alisonpurgatory85]

You do. They happen all the time. Heterochromia is a random mutation. The time frame is extremely long but there are shorter term examples of mutations being a key to survival and thus passed down in the the genes- Peppered Moths are a good one to look up

[@Testbug-dy6tj]

Did anyone hear about the "Doctors without Borders" staffer, was a hamas Terrorist.

[@13shadowwolf]

Sometimes horrible people hide within good organizations. It's why they're often labeled as "terrorists"

[@Testbug-dy6tj]

@13shadowwolf I just wanna be honest, I'm still a little suspicious of Doctors without Borders. I made a post about it, but nobody responded.? It was for forest...

[@13shadowwolf]

@@Testbug-dy6tj you're suspicious of Doctors without Borders? That's a bit on the conspiracy theory side, they have an excellent reputation spanning decades. Why are you suspicious?