The Winter Lunar Festival continues, but the longer the party stays, the harder it becomes to ignore that something is deeply wrong.

As night falls without warning, the music stops and a makeshift arena is revealed at the heart of the celebration. What begins as harmless festival entertainment quickly turns personal when Sefi signs up to fight under a false name, and Todd follows suit with an alias of his own. With betting encouraged, rules vaguely defined, and magic strictly forbidden, the party places their wagers and prepares to watch, or participate in, the spectacle.

Inside the arena, Sefi dominates the competition with raw strength and calculated technique, while Todd fights his way through the brackets with speed, precision, and just a little chaos. All the while, familiar faces fill the crowd: parents long thought dead, figures from the past smiling and cheering as if nothing ever went wrong. But not everyone sees the same thing. Todd notices faces that blur, glitch, and briefly reveal something watching from beneath the illusion.

As victories pile up and attention turns toward the final rounds, the celebration grows louder, the crowd grows closer, and the deception grows thinner. Whatever this place is, it wants the party fully invested before it makes its next move.

The fights are far from over, and neither is the lie.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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The party finds itself deeper within Rory’s trial as the illusion around them grows increasingly convincing, and increasingly dangerous. What began as a familiar Winter Lunar Festival in Thormir’s homeland quickly reveals itself to be something far more unsettling: a version of the past where loss never came, loved ones still walk the streets, and joy comes far too easily.

As Thormir returns to his family home and confirms the impossible truth, the group reunites to share disturbing discoveries. Malcius encounters a figure he never expected to see again. Sefi comes face to face with people long thought lost. Todd, ever suspicious, begins to notice cracks in the illusion that no one else can quite see.

With free food, false comfort, and emotional temptations pulling them in different directions, the party starts asking the right questions. Why does this festival exist now? Why is a powerful sorcerer blessing newborns, something Thormir knows only happened once before? And if this place isn’t real, why does it feel so convincing?

As the sun lowers and the festival presses on, the group realizes that this vision of the past isn’t meant to comfort them. It’s meant to teach them something… whether they’re ready for it or not.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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The party awakens from Rory’s unsettling trial and steps into a world transformed. Snow covers the earth, the cold cuts to the bone, and a familiar fear settles over Thormir as he recognizes a place that should not exist. The Winter Lunar Festival is alive with music, color, and celebration, yet something in the air feels wrong, as if the world itself is holding its breath.

Each hero senses that this strange vision carries a truth they are not yet ready to face. Malcius struggles against the biting cold and the warmth of unexpected kindness. Sefi feels the ground shift beneath her as she crosses paths with someone who shakes her to the core. Todd experiences a moment he cannot explain, a lingering echo of something deeper within him.

The road ahead grows more uncertain, but the party must push forward. What they have stepped into is not merely a festival. It is a reflection of something hidden, something waiting to be revealed.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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The party finally begins their long-promised training with Rory, the enigmatic druid who’s been guiding Thor­mir’s connection to his mote. What starts as peaceful meditation (and Sefi’s ill-advised mushroom trip) quickly spirals into a chaotic, high-stakes battle as Rory pushes the group far beyond their comfort zones.

Between booming blades, teleporting strikes, bardic marches, shape-shifting, spore clouds, and a glowing mote that seems to have a will of its own, the team is forced to confront both their power and their limits. And as Rory ramps up the intensity, the line between “training” and “survival” gets thinner and thinner.

Will the party rise to the challenge or crumble under the weight of Rory’s mysterious lessons?

Strap in. This one gets wild.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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After their brutal battle with the bandits, tensions simmer as the party hauls their prisoners back toward Beckinsdale, only for Thormir’s glowing mote to suddenly dart off the path, leading them into a mysterious spore-filled forest. There, they encounter Rory, a weathered dwarven druid wreathed in fungi who claims to be a guide across worlds. Inside his glowing mushroom cottage, the party meets Rory’s strange companion, Sebastian, and learns cryptic truths about their own motes, the nature of the “Unfated Ones,” and the multiverse itself.

As Rory challenges each of them: Malcius wrestling with mercy, Sefi seeking purpose, Todd confronting his inner darkness, and Thormir learning the deeper bond with his mote, the group begins to understand that saving the world may first require saving themselves.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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The battle at the bandit camp reaches its breaking point as spells flare, blades clash, and tempers run hot. When one of the surviving bandits surrenders, the party finds themselves at odds, especially Todd and Malcius, whose clashing beliefs over justice and mercy threaten to tear the group apart. Should they let the survivor live to answer for his crimes, or finish what they started? With emotions running high and secrets unraveling, the line between hero and executioner grows dangerously thin.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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The party pushes deeper into the woods outside Beckinsdale and finally discovers the bandit camp behind the recent burglaries. Malcius tries to talk his way out, but blades are soon drawn. What begins as a tense standoff quickly erupts into chaos as Sefi wades into the fray, Todd and Thormir square off against ruthless raiders, and spells flash through the trees. Narrow escapes, bloodied blades, and unanswered questions set the stage for what’s still to come.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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A year ago, our party set out on a wild quest. Now, one year later, the adventure’s only just begun. Join the celebration (and maybe win some loot)! Check with us in the next few days to find out how to enter to win!

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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The party wakes at the Brave Lion, where breakfast brings more than just food, it brings reminders of last night’s chaos. With the mysterious tree now gone, they return to the Lion’s Den to settle damages, test Todd’s questionable “repair” skills, and confront the costs of their choices. But as gold is handed over and cracks are mended, the ceiling above still tells a different story, and new shadows begin to gather on the horizon.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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Need to catch up before diving into the next chapter? This special recap episode of You’ve Got to Be Critting Me covers everything from Episodes 15–26.

Join Malcius, Sefi, Thormir, and Todd as they battle cavern-dwelling horrors, fight off gnolls alongside a vengeful one-tusked giant, stumble through burglary investigations, and unleash pure chaos with a bag of magic beans that sends a beanstalk crashing through the roof of an inn.

The adventure crescendos in Beckinsdale, where every dead end leads to deeper mysteries.

And stick around: there’s a small preview of Episode 27, where safety gives way to sudden danger, and the whispers of the Dragon King grow louder than ever.

DM: Jeffery Jordan

Malcius: Travis Stewart

Sefi: Morgan Gibson

Thormir: Nick Miller

Todd: Bryce Shearer

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